FLYTING
Etymology
Noun
flyting (plural flytings)
Contention, noisy argument.
Scolding, rebuke.
A poetic contest of insults or invective.
These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.
Source: Wiktionary
FLYTE
Flite, Flyte, n. [AS. flit. See Flite.]
Definition: Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting;
wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
The bird of Pallas has also a good "flyte" on the moral side . . . in
his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is
to make women false to their husbands.
Saintsbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition