- Saga - Wikipedia
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia The most famous saga-genre is the sagas of Icelanders, which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between Icelandic families
- SAGA Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The original sagas were Icelandic prose narratives that were roughly analogous to modern historical novels They were penned in the 12th and 13th centuries, and blended fact and fiction to tell the tales of famous rulers, legendary heroes, and average folks of Iceland and Norway
- Norse Mythology, Epic Poems Historical Accounts - Britannica
saga, in medieval Icelandic literature, any type of story or history in prose, irrespective of the kind or nature of the narrative or the purposes for which it was written
- Saga - World History Encyclopedia
The Old Norse word saga means 'story', 'tale' or 'history' and normally refers specifically to the epic prose narratives written mainly in Iceland between the 12th- and 15th centuries CE, covering the country's history as well as Scandinavia's legendary past
- Index - Icelandic Saga Database
The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries CE
- Icelanders’ sagas | Viking Age, Norse Mythology, Oral Tradition . . .
Icelanders’ sagas, the class of heroic prose narratives written during 1200–20 about the great families who lived in Iceland from 930 to 1030 Among the most important such works are the Njáls saga and the Gísla saga
- SAGA PRESS
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon Schuster, is a publisher of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and interstitial speculative fiction since 2015
- Norse Sagas - Norse Mythology - Timeless Myths
Norse sagas are similar to epics, but usually refer to works compiled in Iceland during the medieval period A saga is usually a narrative, either in poems or prose, dealing with historical, legendary or mythical subjects, written in Old Norse during the 13th-14th centuries
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