The god Tyr then interjects and the flyting continues in turn.

Loki's flyting then turns to the goddess Sif.

The play opens with a meta-theatrical flyting between the abstract characters Comedy and Envy.

Alexander Montgomerie, in his Flyting, described her as:

Víðarr does so, and then Loki toasts the Æsir before beginning his flyting.

A poetic feud conducted in memos and emails is no substitute for the grand traditions of Scottish flyting.

The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy.

Towards the end of the poem, the flyting turns to Sif, Thor's wife, whom Loki then claims to have slept with.

In this poem, the ferryman Harbard and the god Thor compete in a flyting or verbal contest with one other.

An important source for the perception of Galwegian language is the poem known as The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy.

He had achieved celebrity after victory over Patrick Hume in The Flyting Betwixt Montgomerie and Polwart (c.1583).

Schir Johne the Ros (Dunbar's commissar in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy; nothing else known)

Lokasenna (Loki's Wrangling, The Flyting of Loki, Loki's Quarrel)

Some elements of the alliterative technique survived in Scotland until the late 16th century, appearing in The Flyting Betwixt Montgomerie and Polwart dated around 1580.

The anecdotes relating to the Flyting which he and Jarir composed against each other, as narrated on the authority of Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, will be found interesting.

With Garneys he engaged in a regular "flyting," undertaken, he says, at the king's command, but Skelton's four poems read as if the abuse in them were dictated by genuine anger.

Marston seems to have been enraged by Joseph Hall's claim to be the first satirist in English; Hall comes in for some indirect flyting in at least one of the satires.

The Scottish poem Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, which is dated before 1520 (the generally accepted date prior to the death of William Dunbar, one of the composers), refers to 'haggeis'.

A fifth section (stanzas 22 to 27) consists of a misplaced version of the flyting between Sinfjötli (Helgi's half-brother) and Guthmundr, which probably is older than the one found in Helgakviða Hundingsbana I.

In a May 2010 episode of the Channel 4 series Time Team, archaeologists Matt Williams and Phil Harding engage in some mock flyting in Old English written by Saxon historian Sam Newton to demonstrate the practice.

He was probably a native of East Lothian, as assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie where it is also hinted that he was a member of the noble house of Dunbar.

In The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, an outstanding specimen of a favourite northern form, analogous to the continental estrif, or tenzone, he and his rival reach a height of scurrility which is certainly without parallel in English literature.

He came to prominence as "laureled" leader of the Catalian Band, a circle of court poets headed by the King after being declared victor over a rival poet, Patrick Hume of Polwarth, in a comically scurrilous flyting, or poetic duel.

Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild, also known as The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie, is the earliest surviving example of the Scottish version of the flyting genre in poetry.