Editing Flyting (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''flyting'' comes from the [[Old English]] verb {{lang|ang|flītan}} meaning 'to quarrel', made into a [[gerund]] with the suffix -''ing''. Attested from around 1200 in the general sense of a verbal quarrel, it is first found as a technical literary term in Scotland in the sixteenth century.<ref>{{Cite OED|Fliting|71711}}</ref> The first written [[Scots language|Scots]] example<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: DOST :: flyting |url=https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/flyting |access-date=2023-12-18}}</ref> is [[William Dunbar]], ''[[The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie]]'', written in the late fifteenth century.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter=23 The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie |url=https://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/display/10.1093/actrade/9780198118886.book.1/actrade-9780198118886-div1-24?p1-1=1&p2-1=1&r-1=1.000&t-1=contents-tab&w1-1=1.000&w2-1=0.400&wm-1=1 |access-date=2023-12-18 |via=Oxford Scholarly Editions Online |language=en |doi=10.1093/actrade/9780198118886.book.1 | title=The Poems of William Dunbar | date=1979 | last1=Dunbar | first1=William | isbn=978-0-19-811888-6 | editor-first1=James | editor-last1=Kinsley }}</ref>