Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A prose narrative usually written in Iceland between 1120 and 1400, dealing with the families that first settled Iceland and their descendants, with the histories of the kings of Norway, and with the myths and legends of early Germanic gods and heroes.
- noun A modern prose narrative that resembles a saga.
- noun A long detailed report.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient Scandinavian legend or tradition of considerable length, relating either mythical or historical events; a tale; a history: as, the Völsunga saga; the Knytlinga saga.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An Old Norse (
Icelandic ) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends - noun Something with the qualities of such a saga; an
epic , a longstory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Submit a Comment • Trackback (0) • With so many permutations and mixed motivations, the Palin saga is starting to feel like a Restoration play.
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Markos linked to, by the way, a rather well-done explanation of the Durbin saga from a conservative blogger who actually gets it.
06/22/2005 2005
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In modern publishing, at any rate in the UK, the term saga is generally used to describe a type of fiction aimed principally at women.
More about sagas Michael Allen 2005
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The term saga also crops up, occasionally, in science fiction, e.g. in relation to E.E.
More about sagas Michael Allen 2005
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Once we get into the twentieth century, the term saga was chiefly popularised by John Galsworthy, who wrote The Forsyte Saga.
More about sagas Michael Allen 2005
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The recent Cadillac/Greymac/Kilderkin saga is a current, rather tortured example of what can happen when governments impose a regime of rent controls.
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As such the final solution to this saga is a realignment of exchange rates and the rebalancing of trade.
Western Governments' Addiction To Credit And The Rise Of China ADVFN Clem Chambers 2010
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The more I read about this saga is the more I respect Mrs. Sanford.
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A link to the latest development in his saga is here, courtesy of the Orlando Sentinel
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Anderson & B. Herbert have their own writing style, and I don't think they are up to Franks 'standard, but then again i am realy curious as to how the saga is about to end.
hernesheir commented on the word saga
A Danish cheese that is like a cross between blue cheese and Brie; a soft, mild, blue-veined cheese with a moldy natural rind.
January 20, 2009