From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 11:05:06 MDT
On Behalf Of Jkr438@aol.com
Sent: 13 September 2002 05:18 PM
. . . and lo many score of mighty steed were ruthlessly beaten to death
and beyond, as the crowds stared in amazement . . .
[Jake writes furiously]
[Jake] okay everyone let's STFU while Joe gets ready to talk to David.
Now what was that, "exactly how has David ceded control?"
. . . as heads lean in towards the screens to better "hear."
Love,
-Jake
[Blunderov]
Etymology: "flaming" derived from "flyting" ? You be the judge.
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flyting
(Scots: "quarreling" or "contention"), poetic competition of the
Scottish makaris (poets) of the 15th and 16th centuries, in which two
highly skilled rivals engaged in a contest of verbal abuse, remarkable
for its fierceness and extravagance. Although contestants attacked each
other spiritedly, they actually had a professional respect for their
rival's vocabulary of invective. The tradition seems to have derived
from the Gaelic filid (class of professional poets), who composed savage
tirades against persons who slighted them. A Scandinavian counterpart is
the Lokasenna ("Flyting of Loki), a poem in the Poetic (Elder) Edda in
which the trickster-god Loki bandies words with the other gods, taunting
them with coarse jests. Although true flyting became obsolete in
Scottish literature after the Middle Ages, the tradition itself never
died out amongst writers of Celtic background. The style and language of
Robert Burns's "To a Louse" (Ye ugly, creeping, blastit wonner /
Detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner) parodies earlier Scots flyting
and James Joyce's poem "The Holy Office" is a bards curse on the society
that spurns him.
Examples of true flyting are "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie" (The
poets William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy) and "The Flyting betwixt
Montgomerie and Polwart (the poets Alexander Montgomerie and Sir
Patrick Hume of Polwarth.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica 2002
Warm regards
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