köken: From Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Old Swedish sagha, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Swedish saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka. Compare with segja (“to say, to tell”) and sögn (“a story”).
aile: ganga eins og í sögu, koma til sögunnar, bera vel söguna, sjón er sögu ríkari, saga að segja frá, smásaga, úr sögunni