saga
An Old Norse prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories…An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
» The fighting is done, feasting begun, a saga well spun.
Meaning
2 sensesAn Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
Saga
са́гаsága
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
Sage
са́гаsága, эпопеяepopeja
- 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
Examples
7 sentencesThe fighting is done, feasting begun, a saga well spun.
Let's put all data into silos and make every book into a bloated gaslighting saga.
The Terminator saga also has a television series.
Tom wrote an Icelandic-style saga in Esperanto.
Saga Prefecture's capital is Saga City.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), froFrom Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).
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