| 1. legend, tale of heroic adventures. sagasaga (sāg&adot;), n.; pl. sagas (-g&adot;z). [icel., akin to e. saw a saying. see: say, and cf. saw.] a scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the norsemen and kindred people; a northern european popular historical or religious tale of olden time. and then the blue-eyed norseman told a saga of the days of old.saga an 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 |
