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Noun Concept
Categories: Medieval literature, North Germanic languages, Sagas, Old Norse literature, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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saga  Contemporary saga  List of other Norse sagas  Norse saga  Norse sagas
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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 WordNet 3.0
English:
literature
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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia. Wikipedia
Prose stories, mostly concerning ancient Nordic history. Mostly written in Icelandic, in the Old Norse language Wikidata
An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. Wiktionary
Old Norse Icelandic prose. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
adventure story
literary genre
traditional story
PART OF
Old Norse literature
HAS KIND
Strengleikar
kings' sagas
legendary saga
Bishops' saga
saints' saga
+5 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Brjáns saga
Njáls saga
Heimskringla
Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar
Ásmundar saga kappabana
+13 relations
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
DIFFERENT FROM
German folklore
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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saga
Wikipedia
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saga
Wikidata
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saga
Wiktionary
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saga
Wikipedia Redirections
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Contemporary saga, List of other Norse sagas, Norse saga, Norse sagas, Saga (literature), sagas, Scandinavian saga, Scandinavian sagas, The Norse Sagas, Viking saga, Viking sagas
Wikidata Alias
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sagas

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