Fergal the Faceless was an Anglo-Saxon amateur flyter during the late 9th century AD. Born in Cambridge, he had the reputation of a poetic master, but, when he competed with the Norwegian Viking warrior and flyter Eivor (hiding his face by speaking to Eivor through the straw wall of his hut), he was unable to come up with well-structured or rhyming verses and ultimately ran off rather than continue to be humiliated.