"Saga" is not a name - it means story or history, from which the English word saga is sometimes used today.
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The cast of My Icelandic Saga - 2012 includes: Caley Gibson
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A saga is a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc. or Any narrative or legend of heroic exploits.
The great monuments of Icelandic literature are the Eddas and of course the Sagas, of which one of the best known is Njal's saga, or Burnt Neal.
'Saga' is a word meaning a story of the heroic exploits of a king or a well known hero originating in Icelandic or Norwegian history.
Theodore M. Andersson has written: 'The Icelandic family saga'
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Einar O lafur Sveinsson has written: 'Dating the Icelandic saga'
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