Saga
['sɑːgə] or ['sɑɡə]
Definition
(noun.) a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account.
Editor: Vanessa--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
(pl. ) of Sagum
Edited by Barrett
Definition
n. a tale historical or fabulous in the old prose literature of Iceland.—n. S?prime;gaman a narrator of sagas.
Editor: Rena
Examples
- These sagas, epics, and vedas do supply, in addition to arch?ology and philology, a third source of information about those vanished times. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the tenth and eleventh centuries many of their sagas began to be written down in Iceland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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