tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264965526853735683.post6571498187752990271..comments2024-03-23T09:57:30.798+00:00Comments on The Review : Mediaeval Debate PoetrySharon Bennett Connollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041403536250826439noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264965526853735683.post-7920296101756046542017-10-13T18:13:31.415+01:002017-10-13T18:13:31.415+01:00Thanks Paula and Diana - flyting sounds a great ex...Thanks Paula and Diana - flyting sounds a great excuse to insult your rivals under the cloak of 'art'! <br />Marie Macphersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10906943465845474431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264965526853735683.post-67236881385420018372017-10-11T22:56:24.316+01:002017-10-11T22:56:24.316+01:00Hey Marie, it's an Anglo Saxon term, flyting w...Hey Marie, it's an Anglo Saxon term, flyting was part of the symbe, feasting in the mead hall. There's a passage in Beowulf I believe that deals with this. Paula Loftinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138899684247746388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264965526853735683.post-25136257112077043262017-10-11T13:58:12.996+01:002017-10-11T13:58:12.996+01:00In medieval Scots poetry this debating is called f...In medieval Scots poetry this debating is called flying in which poets hurl scurrilous abuse and insults at each other. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, is the earliest surviving example of the Scottish version of the flyting genre in poetry. The genre takes the form of a contest, or "war of words" between two poets, each trying to outclass the other in vituperation and verbal pyrotechnics. It is not certain how the work was composed, but it is likely to have been publicly performed, probably in the style of a poetic joust by the two combatants, William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy, before the Court of James IV of Scotland.Marie Macphersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10906943465845474431noreply@blogger.com