Vikings use to have rap battles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting

I know this now because of a wiki-crawl for some real life inspiration. I found the idea so cool that I knew I had to include something like it. Thus I began to research traditional skaldic poetry styles. I spent most of my afternoon figuring out how dróttkvœtt meter works. For how it works the helpful website I found had this oh-so easy explanation and example.

Hrammtangar lætr hanga
hrynvirgil mér brynju

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