🔴 **Insulting Etymology + Savage Insults from History**

Jess Zafarris

_“Flyting, earlier simply a word for an argument, is a poetic war of words or entertaining debate in which the two contestants attempt to “out-bard” each other, so to speak. (It’s basically the predecessor to a rap battle.) The humor is often crude and escalates into rhythmic strings of insults.”_

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