sagan.¹

Brit.

/ˈsɑːɡə/, U.S.

/ˈsɑɡə/

Etymology: < Old Norse and Icelandic saga weak feminine (Swedish saga ) narrative, story, history; corresponding (except in declension) to Old English sagu strong feminine: see saw n.²

a. Any of the narrative compositions in prose that were written in Iceland or Norway during the middle ages; in English use often applied spec. to those which embody the traditional history of Icelandic families or of the kings of Norway.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > types of legend or folk tale > legends or folk tales of specific cultures

the Grailc1330

sangrail1470

saga1709

Mahabharata1768

nancy storya1818

Anansi tale1856

Anansi story1873

immram1895

1709 Hickes in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 201 The histories of the old Northern nations, which commonly have the title of Saga, which signifies a narration of History.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) I. 326 The credit of this story rests, as far as I know, on the authority of the Saga, or Chronicle of King Olaus..published by Perinskiold at Stockholm a.d. 1697.

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. xxii. 180 Many a Saga's rhime uncouth.

1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance 66 The Icelandic Sagas—the prose histories of the fortunes of the great Icelandic houses.

b. transferred. A narrative having the (real or supposed) characteristics of the Icelandic sagas; a story of heroic achievement or marvellous adventure. Also, a novel or series of novels recounting the history of a family through several generations, as The Forsyte Saga. Now frequently in weakened use, a long and complicated (account of a) series of more or less loosely connected events.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story of exploits

gesta1300

jesta1300

saga1857

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel

political novel1735

comic novel1787

epistolary1804

autobiographical novel1832

Robinsonade1837

roman1867

sea-book1867

roman à clef1882

roman expérimental1884

hill-top novel1895

saga1895

Bildungsroman1910

pulp fiction1931

American Gothic1938

Künstlerroman1941

suspense novel1952

nouveau roman1959

sword and sorcery1961

graphic novel1964

non-fiction novel1965

schlockbuster1966

dark fantasy1968

celebrity novel1969

swashbuckler1975

chick lit1988

splatterpunk1988

Aga saga1992

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > long

Iliad1609

to spin a yarn1819

saga1935

1857 H. W. Longfellow Discov. N. Cape viii For the old seafaring men Came to me now and then, With their sagas of the seas.

1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 63 With this last visit terminates my saga of Gripsholm.

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed v. 79 Dick delivered himself of the saga of his own doings.

1891 R. L. Stevenson Let. 19 May (1899) II. 231 Henry Shovel has now turned into a work called ‘The Shovels of Newton French’.., which work is to begin in 1664..and end about 1832... I mean to make it good; it will be more like a saga.]

1895 H. Caine Bondman (ed. 4) p. viii I have called my story a Saga, merely because it follows the epic method.

1919 J. Galsworthy Let. 25 Nov. in H. V. Marrot Life & Lett. J. Galsworthy (1935) iv. i. 485 I have just finished a sequel to The Man of Property, and, in accordance with the scheme I broached to you..have still one story and a third novel in further sequel to write, to make the whole of The Forsyte Saga.

1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night iii. 51 She felt she would rather be tried for life over again than walk the daily treadmill of Catherine's life. It was a saga, in its way, but it was preposterous.

1942 ‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair ii. 89 Appleby and Hudspith were scarcely in a position to give it the dispassionate appraisal of literary critics; the saga had a sort of aura of alligator which made it uncomfortable hearing.

1952 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Jan. 15/3 The latest, no doubt the logical, development of the ‘life with mother’ saga is the chronicle of pregnancy and childbirth.

1959 Listener 18 June 1074/1 The Burrell Collection..is still, after a long saga of misadventures, looking for a site.

1970 Nature 18 Apr. 197/1 By now, the daily newspapers will tell how the saga of Apollo 13 has been finished.

1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon x. 190 Rousing themselves hastily from the morbid fascination induced by this saga, Thouless, Padmore and the Major all went into action.

1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance xlix. 497 ‘Found her! Where?’ ‘In Marseilles. Told me about it for two hours over dinner. It's a saga.’

2. More generally (in some cases as an equivalent of the cognate German sage): A story, popularly believed to be matter of fact, which has been developed by gradual accretions in the course of ages, and has been handed down by oral tradition; historical or heroic legend, as distinguished both from authentic history and from intentional fiction.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > a legend or folk tale

pistlec1400

legend1581

saga1845

Märchen1869

folk-epic1904

1845 B. Thorpe in J. M. Lappenberg's Hist. Eng. I. 90 The poem of Beowulf.., in which the old Anglian saga is ennobled by an Anglo-Saxon of the eighth century.

1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fraser's Mag. July 55/1 The libretto is founded on the old German saga of the Venusberg and the knightly minstrel Tannhäuser.

1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton i. 1 I shall begin..by..a saga.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 265 The Popular Tale is thus..distinguished from..the Myth, or Saga.

1873 R. H. Busk Sagas from Far East 242 While displaying the usual exaggerations common to the Sagas of all nations, these Indian Sagas have one leading peculiarity.

1881 H. Morley Longer Works in Eng. Verse & Prose I. i. 1/1 Most ancient of English poems is the old saga which tells how Beowulf rescued Hrothgar from the attacks of Grendel.

1883 H. M. Kennedy tr. B. ten Brink Early Eng. Lit. 150 The Sagas of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton.

1898 T. Arnold Notes on Beowulf v. 71 Whether the Sigemund— Siegfried saga is of Scandinavian or German origin.

1903 L. F. Anderson Anglo-Saxon Scop 16 The great number of sagas learned by the scop of Beowulf is expressly mentioned... It was praiseworthy in a scop to have learned not only the more familiar sagas, but some not generally known.

1912 R. W. Chambers Widsith 15 How much of this is history, and how much saga, it is not easy to say.

1960 M. B. McNamee in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 59 199 At least by the eleventh century, the mysterious serpent-infested mere of Anglo-Saxon saga had provided a means of making the story of Christ and Satan and Hell graphic to the Anglo-Saxon imagination.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

saga-age n.

ΚΠ

1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance iii. 230 In the material conditions of Icelandic life in the ‘Saga Age’ there was all the stuff that was required for heroic narrative.

1956 R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher Wild Amer. xxxiii. 354 The..Eskimos used to drive the geese across the tundra..and net them..a method of wildfowling known..in Iceland, where it became a great art in the Saga Age.

saga-cycle n.

ΚΠ

1892 S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. I. 104 The first saga-cycle includes the songs sung concerning the earlier deeds of Beowulf before he became king.

saga-hero n.

ΚΠ

1899 W. H. Schofield tr. S. Bugge Home of Eddic Poems 172 In the oldest reference to this saga-hero, in Widsith, 21, we read: Hagena [wéold] Holmrygum.

saga-writer n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > writer or teller of legends > of types of legend

saga-man1823

cyclographer1841

saga-writer1866

1866 S. Baring-Gould Curious Myths Middle Ages 1st Ser. 113 An arrow..penetrated the windpipe of the king, and it is supposed to have sped, observes the Saga writer, from the bow of Hemingr.

C2.

saga-man n. [= Old Norse sǫgu-maðr] a narrator of sagas, also the hero of a saga.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > writer or teller of legends > of types of legend

saga-man1823

cyclographer1841

saga-writer1866

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > creation or description of characters > principal character > types of

saga-man1823

anti-hero1897

Bildungs-hero1962

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Saga-man (Archæol.), a tale~teller, or secret accuser.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. xiv. 340 You are the hero! you are the Sagaman! We are not worthy.

1866 Reader 3 Mar. 221/3 All the skalds and sagamen of any note were Icelanders.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	saga
释义	sagan.¹ Brit. /ˈsɑːɡə/, U.S. /ˈsɑɡə/ Etymology: < Old Norse and Icelandic saga weak feminine (Swedish saga ) narrative, story, history; corresponding (except in declension) to Old English sagu strong feminine: see saw n.² 1. a. Any of the narrative compositions in prose that were written in Iceland or Norway during the middle ages; in English use often applied spec. to those which embody the traditional history of Icelandic families or of the kings of Norway. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > types of legend or folk tale > legends or folk tales of specific cultures the Grailc1330 sangrail1470 saga1709 Mahabharata1768 nancy storya1818 Anansi tale1856 Anansi story1873 immram1895 1709 Hickes in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 201 The histories of the old Northern nations, which commonly have the title of Saga, which signifies a narration of History. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) I. 326 The credit of this story rests, as far as I know, on the authority of the Saga, or Chronicle of King Olaus..published by Perinskiold at Stockholm a.d. 1697. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. xxii. 180 Many a Saga's rhime uncouth. 1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance 66 The Icelandic Sagas—the prose histories of the fortunes of the great Icelandic houses. b. transferred. A narrative having the (real or supposed) characteristics of the Icelandic sagas; a story of heroic achievement or marvellous adventure. Also, a novel or series of novels recounting the history of a family through several generations, as The Forsyte Saga. Now frequently in weakened use, a long and complicated (account of a) series of more or less loosely connected events. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story of exploits gesta1300 jesta1300 saga1857 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel political novel1735 comic novel1787 epistolary1804 autobiographical novel1832 Robinsonade1837 roman1867 sea-book1867 roman à clef1882 roman expérimental1884 hill-top novel1895 saga1895 Bildungsroman1910 pulp fiction1931 American Gothic1938 Künstlerroman1941 suspense novel1952 nouveau roman1959 sword and sorcery1961 graphic novel1964 non-fiction novel1965 schlockbuster1966 dark fantasy1968 celebrity novel1969 swashbuckler1975 chick lit1988 splatterpunk1988 Aga saga1992 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > long Iliad1609 to spin a yarn1819 saga1935 1857 H. W. Longfellow Discov. N. Cape viii For the old seafaring men Came to me now and then, With their sagas of the seas. 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 63 With this last visit terminates my saga of Gripsholm. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed v. 79 Dick delivered himself of the saga of his own doings. 1891 R. L. Stevenson Let. 19 May (1899) II. 231 Henry Shovel has now turned into a work called ‘The Shovels of Newton French’.., which work is to begin in 1664..and end about 1832... I mean to make it good; it will be more like a saga.] 1895 H. Caine Bondman (ed. 4) p. viii I have called my story a Saga, merely because it follows the epic method. 1919 J. Galsworthy Let. 25 Nov. in H. V. Marrot Life & Lett. J. Galsworthy (1935) iv. i. 485 I have just finished a sequel to The Man of Property, and, in accordance with the scheme I broached to you..have still one story and a third novel in further sequel to write, to make the whole of The Forsyte Saga. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night iii. 51 She felt she would rather be tried for life over again than walk the daily treadmill of Catherine's life. It was a saga, in its way, but it was preposterous. 1942 ‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair ii. 89 Appleby and Hudspith were scarcely in a position to give it the dispassionate appraisal of literary critics; the saga had a sort of aura of alligator which made it uncomfortable hearing. 1952 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Jan. 15/3 The latest, no doubt the logical, development of the ‘life with mother’ saga is the chronicle of pregnancy and childbirth. 1959 Listener 18 June 1074/1 The Burrell Collection..is still, after a long saga of misadventures, looking for a site. 1970 Nature 18 Apr. 197/1 By now, the daily newspapers will tell how the saga of Apollo 13 has been finished. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon x. 190 Rousing themselves hastily from the morbid fascination induced by this saga, Thouless, Padmore and the Major all went into action. 1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance xlix. 497 ‘Found her! Where?’ ‘In Marseilles. Told me about it for two hours over dinner. It's a saga.’ 2. More generally (in some cases as an equivalent of the cognate German sage): A story, popularly believed to be matter of fact, which has been developed by gradual accretions in the course of ages, and has been handed down by oral tradition; historical or heroic legend, as distinguished both from authentic history and from intentional fiction. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > a legend or folk tale pistlec1400 legend1581 saga1845 Märchen1869 folk-epic1904 1845 B. Thorpe in J. M. Lappenberg's Hist. Eng. I. 90 The poem of Beowulf.., in which the old Anglian saga is ennobled by an Anglo-Saxon of the eighth century. 1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fraser's Mag. July 55/1 The libretto is founded on the old German saga of the Venusberg and the knightly minstrel Tannhäuser. 1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton i. 1 I shall begin..by..a saga. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 265 The Popular Tale is thus..distinguished from..the Myth, or Saga. 1873 R. H. Busk Sagas from Far East 242 While displaying the usual exaggerations common to the Sagas of all nations, these Indian Sagas have one leading peculiarity. 1881 H. Morley Longer Works in Eng. Verse & Prose I. i. 1/1 Most ancient of English poems is the old saga which tells how Beowulf rescued Hrothgar from the attacks of Grendel. 1883 H. M. Kennedy tr. B. ten Brink Early Eng. Lit. 150 The Sagas of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton. 1898 T. Arnold Notes on Beowulf v. 71 Whether the Sigemund— Siegfried saga is of Scandinavian or German origin. 1903 L. F. Anderson Anglo-Saxon Scop 16 The great number of sagas learned by the scop of Beowulf is expressly mentioned... It was praiseworthy in a scop to have learned not only the more familiar sagas, but some not generally known. 1912 R. W. Chambers Widsith 15 How much of this is history, and how much saga, it is not easy to say. 1960 M. B. McNamee in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 59 199 At least by the eleventh century, the mysterious serpent-infested mere of Anglo-Saxon saga had provided a means of making the story of Christ and Satan and Hell graphic to the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. saga-age n. ΚΠ 1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance iii. 230 In the material conditions of Icelandic life in the ‘Saga Age’ there was all the stuff that was required for heroic narrative. 1956 R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher Wild Amer. xxxiii. 354 The..Eskimos used to drive the geese across the tundra..and net them..a method of wildfowling known..in Iceland, where it became a great art in the Saga Age. saga-cycle n. ΚΠ 1892 S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. I. 104 The first saga-cycle includes the songs sung concerning the earlier deeds of Beowulf before he became king. saga-hero n. ΚΠ 1899 W. H. Schofield tr. S. Bugge Home of Eddic Poems 172 In the oldest reference to this saga-hero, in Widsith, 21, we read: Hagena [wéold] Holmrygum. b. saga-writer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > writer or teller of legends > of types of legend saga-man1823 cyclographer1841 saga-writer1866 1866 S. Baring-Gould Curious Myths Middle Ages 1st Ser. 113 An arrow..penetrated the windpipe of the king, and it is supposed to have sped, observes the Saga writer, from the bow of Hemingr. C2. saga-man n. [= Old Norse sǫgu-maðr] a narrator of sagas, also the hero of a saga. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > writer or teller of legends > of types of legend saga-man1823 cyclographer1841 saga-writer1866 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > creation or description of characters > principal character > types of saga-man1823 anti-hero1897 Bildungs-hero1962 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Saga-man (Archæol.), a tale~teller, or secret accuser. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. xiv. 340 You are the hero! you are the Sagaman! We are not worthy. 1866 Reader 3 Mar. 221/3 All the skalds and sagamen of any note were Icelanders. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sagan.² /ˈseɪɡə/ Etymology: < Latin sāga. A witch. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > witch > [noun] walkyrieOE witchOE hagc1230 strya1300 wise woman1382 sorceressc1384 luller14.. tylyester14.. chantressc1425 magicienne1490 gyre-carline1535 witch-womana1538 eye-biter1584 beldama1586 witch-wife1591 cunning woman1594 saga?a1600 magha1609 magicianess1651 hag-witcha1658 haggard1658 besom-rider1664 wizardess1789 fly-by-night1796 lucky1827 bruja1829 weird-woman1845 hex1856 Baba Yaga1857 pishogue1906 witcher1928 ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 363 Thair Saga slew ane saikles beast. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iii. x. 155 ‘Patience’, resumed the witch,..‘My mother was herself a saga’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1709n.²?a1600
随便看	seagale search out search parade search party search plane search result search room search sheet search term search the bottom search to the bottom search tree search up search warrant search-making searchability searchable searchableness searchant searched searched out searched-for searchedfor searcher searcher of hearts

sagan.1

Compounds

sagan.2

sagan.¹

sagan.²