Sága
Old Norse Dictionary - sága
Meaning of Old Norse word "sága"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- sága
- u, f. [akin to saga and segja?], one of the goddesses, see Gm. 7; often used in circumlocutions of a woman, silki-sága, öl-sága, etc., Lex. Poët.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛅᚴᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- etc.
- et cetera.
- f.
- feminine.
- m.
- masculine.
Works & Authors cited:
- Gm.
- Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.