Flyting

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Think rap battles were a modern invention? Think again! Medieval poets were dropping fire bars centuries ago, though they called it ‘flyting’ – a verbal showdown where insults flew faster than arrows.

FREUDENFREUDE

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FREUDENFREUDE noun / FROI-dən-/fró-duh / The bliss we feel when someone else succeeds, even if we weren’t directly involved.