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."]] thumb|The Norse gods Freyja and [[Loki flyte in an illustration (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.]] Flyting or fliting (Classical Gaelic: immarbág, , "counter-boasting") is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse.
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."]] thumb|The Norse gods Freyja and [[Loki flyte in an illustration (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.]] Flyting or fliting (Classical Gaelic: immarbág, , "counter-boasting") is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse.
==Etymology== The word flyting comes from the Old English verb 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. The first written Scots example is William Dunbar, The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, written in the late fifteenth century.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).