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Literature > Sagas

Preferred term

Sagas  

Definition

  • Medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narratives of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.; any narrative or legend of heroic exploits [Random House]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Epics, sagas
  • Folk tales, sagas
  • Histories, sagas
  • Narratives, prose, sagas
  • Novels, saga
  • Prose narratives, sagas
  • Stories, sagas
  • Tales, sagas

Notation

  • 121954

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-DT067CR9-0

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