Editing Flyting (section)

{{short description|Exchange of insults in the form of verse}}
[[File:The Papal Belvedere.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|1545 woodcut by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder|Lucas Cranach]] referencing (and possibly illustrating) flyting. German peasants respond to a papal bull of [[Pope Paul III]]. Caption reads: "Don't frighten us Pope, with your ban, and don't be such a furious man. Otherwise we shall turn around and show you our rears."<ref>"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"</ref><ref name="Edwards-2">{{Cite book |last=Edwards Jr |first=Mark U. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYbupalP98kC&pg=PA198 |title=Luther's Last Battles: Politics and Polemics 1531-46 |date=2004-11-19 |publisher=Fortress Press |isbn=978-1-4514-1398-4 |pages=199 |language=en}}</ref>]]
[[File:Lokasenna by Lorenz Frølich.jpg|thumb|The Norse gods [[Freyja]] and [[Loki]] flyte in an illustration (1895) by [[Lorenz Frølich]].]]
'''Flyting''' or '''fliting''' ([[Classical Gaelic]]: ''immarbág'', {{langx|ga|iomarbháigh}}, {{lit}} "counter-boasting")<ref>{{Cite book |author=Vivian Mercier |year=1962 |title=The Irish Comic Tradition |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=146}}</ref> is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Parks |first=Ward |date=1986 |title=Flyting, Sounding, Debate: Three Verbal Contest Genres |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1772505 |journal=Poetics Today |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=439–458 |doi=10.2307/1772505|jstor=1772505 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>