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saga
/ˈsɑɡə/
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What does saga mean?
noun
- An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
- Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
- plural of sagum
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proper noun
- Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
- The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
- A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
- (rare) A unisex given name.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɑɡə/
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But the Saga does not relate whether these Finns projected their souls into the bodies of birds or beasts.
But by far the most remarkable book in existence, connected with the second sight, is one in the ancient Norse language entitled “Nial’s Saga.”
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"Wotan placed a hard heart in my breast," says an old Scandinavian Saga: it is thus rightly expressed from the soul of a proud Viking.
She knew long portions of the “Frithjof Saga” by heart, and, like most Swedes who read at all, she was fond of Longfellow’s verse,—the ballads and the “Golden Legend” and “The Spanish Student.”
At the beginning of the Christian era., the heroes commemorated by Ossian still had in the centre of their shields a polished stone consecrated by the Druids, and a saga maintains that the CERAUNIA assured certain victory to their owners.