1) European court festivity 2) Genre of poetry 
Flyting or fliting is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults, often conducted in verse, between two parties. Thersites: The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord! Norse literature contains stories of the gods flyting. For example in Lokasenna the god Loki insults the other gods in the hall of Ægir and the poem Hárbar...
a poem of invective by two speakers trying to out-humiliate one another.
(Scots: `quarreling,` or `contention`), poetic competition of the Scottish makaris (poets) of the 15th and 16th centuries, in which two highly ...
A contest of wits and insults between two Germanic warriors. Each tries to demonstrate his superior
A poem of invective by two speakers trying to out-humiliate one another.
A contest of invective between two poets e.g. the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie.