TMC
12-12-2016, 04:38 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/cdd28ea3-f943-3290-abf6-c5b295be1bab/the-walking-dead-tries-to.html
There’s this ancient tradition called “flyting.” The word comes from the Old English, and we mostly associate it with England, but the idea is so basic that we have it in every culture. Two people - leaders or battlefield heroes, often - line up opposite each other, usually with some barrier between them, and trade insults back and forth. Each boasts of their own prowess and the weakness of their opponent. No blows are landed, only words. They trash talk, essentially. There’s more ritual to it than that - and once again, I’m greatly oversimplifying something to talk about it in the context of the effing Walking Dead (https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/12/12/the-walking-dead-hearts-still-beating/) - but that’s the idea. Insults. Verbal boasting. Cheers and jeers. We see this
There’s this ancient tradition called “flyting.” The word comes from the Old English, and we mostly associate it with England, but the idea is so basic that we have it in every culture. Two people - leaders or battlefield heroes, often - line up opposite each other, usually with some barrier between them, and trade insults back and forth. Each boasts of their own prowess and the weakness of their opponent. No blows are landed, only words. They trash talk, essentially. There’s more ritual to it than that - and once again, I’m greatly oversimplifying something to talk about it in the context of the effing Walking Dead (https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/12/12/the-walking-dead-hearts-still-beating/) - but that’s the idea. Insults. Verbal boasting. Cheers and jeers. We see this