What is "aeron"

Aeron is used in several ways including:

• Aeron (Celtic mythology), masculine god of battle or slaughter
• Aeron chair, product of Herman Miller designed in 1994
• Aeron Clement (1936–1989), American science fiction author
• Aeron Express, hand powered cable ferry in the Welsh coastal town of Aberaeron
• Alejandra and Aeron, artists based in Oslo, Norway
• Ciliau Aeron, small village near Aberaeron in Ceredigion, Wales
• Nova Aeron, an Austrian paraglider design
• River Aeron, small river that flows into Cardigan Bay
• Ystrad Aeron, small village between Lampeter and Aberaeron, Wales
• Aeron (kingdom), early Brythonic kingdom in northern Britain

Aeron was a kingdom of the Brythonic-speaking Hen Ogledd , presumed to have been located in the region of the River Ayr in what is now southwestern Scotland. It existed during the post-Roman Era, perhaps earlier, and disappeared before or during the 7th century conquest of the region by the ascendant Kingdom of Northumbria.

Aeron is incidentally mentioned in the Book of Taliesin in poems of praise to Urien of Rheged. It is the homeland of several heroes in the Book of Aneirin. The families of several of these heroes also appear in royal genealogies associated with the genealogies of the better known kings of Alt Clut who lived in southwestern Scotland. This, taken together with the phonetic similarity of 'Aeron' and 'Ayr', suggests the location of Aeron.

There are no historical records confirming its history or even its existence, only literary references combined with circumstantially consistent genealogies and incidentally relevant historical records. Though Aeron may have been located within the territory of modern Scotland, as a part of Yr Hen Ogledd it is also an intrinsic part of Welsh history, as both the Welsh and the Men of the North were self-perceived as a single people, collectively referred to in modern Welsh as Cymry.