saga

Meaning

1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

sagum

A cloak, worn in ancient times by the Gauls, early Germans, and Roman soldiers, made of a rectangular piece of (usually red) coarse cloth and fastened on the right shoulder.

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Synonyms

legend

myth

story

epic

fable

narrative

fairy tale

tale

Translations

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destan

épopée

epopeia

epopeia

σάγκα

epos

sage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɑːɡə/

Etymology

Cognate with Old English: sagu

Cognate with Old High German: saga

Cognate with Icelandic: saga

Cognate with German: Sage

In summary

From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw.