Sa"ga (?), n.; pl. Sagas (#). [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.
Longfellow.
© Webster 1913.