Meaning of saga | Babel Free
[ˈsaː.ɡa]Definitions
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a female soothsayer, diviner, fortune-teller, prophetess, witch declension-1
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nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sagum accusative, form-of, neuter, nominative, plural, vocative
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knowledgeable people, especially elderly women declension-1
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magic, magical phenomena or practitioners, supernatural events declension-1, metonymically, poetic
Equivalents
Examples
“Saxonis Grammatici Historia danica. Recensuit et commentariis illustravit Dr. Petrus Erasmus Müller. Opus morte Mülleri interruptum absolvit Mag. Joannes Matthias Velschow, pars posterior, 1858, p. lxii”
... it may be inferred that Saxo had not encountered any written Icelandic sagas.
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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