Flyting or fliting (Classical Gaelic: immarbág, Irish: iomarbháigh, lit. "counter-boasting"),[3] is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse.[4]
- ^ "Nicht Bapst: nicht schreck uns mit deim ban, Und sey nicht so zorniger man. Wir thun sonst ein gegen wehre, Und zeigen dirs Bel vedere"
- ^ Edwards Jr, Mark U. (2004-11-19). Luther's Last Battles: Politics and Polemics 1531-46. Fortress Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4514-1398-4.
- ^ Vivian Mercier (1962). The Irish Comic Tradition. Oxford University Press. p. 146.
- ^ Parks, Ward (1986). "Flyting, Sounding, Debate: Three Verbal Contest Genres". Poetics Today. 7 (3): 439–458. doi:10.2307/1772505. JSTOR 1772505.