legend, saga, myth (a story set in the historical past containing both plausible and mythical elements)
çekim: çoğul mondák
köken: Back-formation from mendemonda (“hearsay, rumor, gossip”), itself a reduplication. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
sorceress, witch · an Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends · something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story
çekim: çoğul sagas
köken: From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ.
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