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sagaProse narrative written down in the 11th-13th centuries in Norway and Iceland. The sagas range from family chronicles, such as the Landnamabok of Ari (1067-1148), to legendary and anonymous works such as Njal's Saga (c. 1280). The term ‘saga’ is generally applied to any long (often heroic) story. Other sagas include the Heimskringla (c. 1220-35) of Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson celebrating Norwegian kings, the Sturlunga of Sturla Thordsson (1214-1284), and the legendary and anonymous Laxdaela Saga (c. 1250) and Grettla Saga. ‘Family saga’ is often used of a novel whose protagonists span two or more generations. |
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| Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that. On board the liner he had poured the saga of his life into Claire's attentive ears, and there was a gentle sweetness in her manner which encouraged Mr Pickering mightily, for he had fallen in love with Claire on sight. She told Helen that he always called on Sundays when they were at home; he knew about a great many things--about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, economics, and the Icelandic Sagas. |
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