Hypertext Webster Gateway: "saga"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Saga \Sa"ga\ (s[=a]"g[.a]), n.; pl. {Sagas} (-g[.a]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. --Longfellow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sagum \Sa"gum\, n.; pl. {Saga}. [L. sagum, sagus; cf. Gr. ?. Cf.
{Say} a kind of serge.] (Rom. Antiq.)
The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
saga
n : 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
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