Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Flyting - The Poetic Joust

Flyting on the ball field:



Fun fact from Wikipedia: Flyting is a poetic genre. The word flyting has been adopted from a fifteenth and sixteenth century custom of Scots. Bards or poets would apparently "engage in public verbal contests of high-flying, extravagant abuse" (wikipedia) most likely spoken in verse.

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