a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.

any narrative or legend of heroic exploits.

Also called saga novel. a form of the novel in which the members or generations of a family or social group are chronicled in a long and leisurely narrative.

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adventure , chronicle , epic , legend , narrative , soap opera * , tale , yarnnotes:epics are long poems about legendary heroes; sagas are prose epics about famous men and women , especially of medieval times , edda , history , myth , story , yarn