saga

Meaning

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.

Origin

• From Old Norse saga ("epic tale, story"), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ ("saying, story"), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-. 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 saw, say. saw.