In Stanza LXV of the Gododdin poems, some manuscripts have 'auon' instead of Aeron. Skene interpreted this to be 'avon', and consequently placed the location at a river bearing that name that runs between Linlithgow and Stirlingshire, near the Firth of Forth., Four Ancient Books of Wales Vol. II, Notes on Stanza LXV. Skene adds that the name also seems to be preserved in the Irongath hills nearby. This view is rejected by other historians., In his comprehensive discussion of Taliesin, where he also discusses certain references to the Book of Aneirin, for example.
