None of the sagas or legends in any way connect Bruennhilde with the fate of Siegfried's parents or the birth of the hero.
In working out the plan as a whole he selected and utilised with his customary skill the salient points of the Norse and German forms of the story, and he found more suitable material in the sagas than in the German epic.
This youth slays the dragon, and then the tale proceeds along the same lines as the other sagas connected with Siegfried.
To see the peasant in the light of the sagas and the sagas in the light of the peasant" he declared to be the fundamental principle of his literary method.
The first generations of Icelandic poets resemble in many ways the later troubadours; the books of the kings and the sagas are full of their strange lives.
The best text of Ari's Konungabok (Ynglinga, and the sagas down to but not including Olaf Tryggvason's) is that of Frisbok.
The sagas of the north are rougher and coarser than those of the west, but have a good deal of individual character.
Beginning with the sagasof the west, most perfect in style and form, the earliest in subject is that of Gold-Thori (c.
To the west also belong the three great complex sagas Egla, Eyrbyggia and Laxdaela.
It is to the west that the best sagas belong; it is to the west that nearly every classic writer whose name we know belongs; and it is precisely in the west that the admixture of Irish blood is greatest.
The distress of the moment, and the deliverance from it, have been kept in imperishable remembrance by popular sagas and church legends.
Bull draws a comparison with the conditions described in the Sagas when Nordland [at the Arctic Circle] produced enough corn to feed the inhabitants of the country.
Brooks thinks that the big trees in California and the Norse sagas and Germanic myths indicate a rough agreement of climatic phenomena with Pettersson's last three dates, while the mild climate of 4000 B.
A fourth stage is represented by the Icelandic Rimur which are for the most part rhyming metrical versions of the sagasand which date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Indeed the writers of the Romantic Sagas are always so much more interested in incident than in character that highly individualised personality is rare.
Sagas of almost every class were subjected to this treatment--Islendinga Soegur, Fornaldar Soegur, Fornmanna Soegur and others.
The passages quoted above would seem to point to Rimur rather than Sagas as the sources of the ballads.
Ivar Vithfathmi went with his army into the Swedish kingdom, as is told in the Sagas of the Kings.
Yet it contains scenes at least equal to any others which can be found among sagas of this kind.
A further list of English translations of sagas not referred to in this book will be found in Craigie's Icelandic Sagas, ch.
Comparatively few of the Rimur have as yet been published and the Griplur is the only one known to me which is primarily concerned with any of the sagas contained in this volume.
It is, however, a question of fact that these illegal relations, according to the same Sagas were much more frequent after the introduction of christianity than before.
In numerous heroic poems of different nations we can trace the unity of all heroic personages, as in the Iliad and the Odyssey of Greece, the Sagas of the North in the Nibelungen-lied, and the Ramayon of the Orient.
In many of these the likeness to the Icelanders own Northern Sagaswas remarkable, suggesting some still more remote age when one heroic conception must have dominated all peoples.
The conversation turned upon one of the Norse sagas that Stella had translated, for which Morris had promised to try to find a publisher.
Others say that was the name of Sinclair's wife; for the Sagas say she accompanied him.
It is possible that this and other similarSagas may have induced the poet Storm to sing about a mermaid.
There are not many Sagas respecting the behaviour of the Scots, and as to what occurred on their march until they reached Gudbrandsdalen.
The Sagas are, for the most part, unconnected biographies or narratives of greater or less length, principally describing events which took place from the ninth to the thirteenth century.
The Folk Sagas have only recently been collected, but they are the true productions of ancient Scandinavians.
Some of theSagas of the "Heimskringla" are grand romances, full of brilliant adventures, while at the same time they lie so completely within the range of history that they may be regarded as authentic.
Fifty years later, more or less, for we must treat the dates of the Icelandic sagas with some reservation, we learn that a wind-tossed vessel was thrown upon a coast far away, which was called Ireland the Great.
Leif is said in the sagas to have met shipwrecked white people on the coasts visited by him (Hist.
A trustful reliance upon the reputations of those who have in greater or less degree accepted the details of the sagas characterizes a paper by Mrs. Ole Bull in the Mag.
The data are the mere vague allusions of a traveller’s tale, and it is indeed the most unsatisfactory feature of the sagas that the later the voyages the more confused and inconsistent their narratives become in every point of detail.
It is a somewhat anomalous condition when long-transmitted oral stories are assigned to history, and certain other written ones of the age of the recorded sagas are relegated to myth.
The sagasstill serve us for the colonization of Greenland, and of particular use is that of Eric the Red.
A blending of history and myth prompts Horn to say “that some of the sagas were doubtless originally based on facts, but the telling and re-telling have changed them into pure myths.
Another link between the Celtic sagas and the romances is their treatment of the supernatural.
This Christian legend was woven into the Breton sagas by the author of the oldest Grail romance; the theories of Provencal Spanish, or Celtic origin are equally untenable, nor is there any need to countenance the fable of a Latin original.
Charlemagne and Alexander, the sagas of Teutonic tribes, the tale of Imperial Rome itself, though still affording subject matter to the wandering jongleur or monkish annalist, paled before the fame of the British King.
The sagas not only of Greek or Persian, of Celt or Hindu, of Slav or Teuton, but also of Algonquin or Japanese, are largely made up of the same incidents set in the same framework.
This fall of men And sagas many On the fair shield I see.
Here was put in writing the laws and sagas that give us a clue to the form of old Teutonic institutions.
In the mythological sagas it is also called Godheim; that is, the home of Odin and the other gods.
Both complement each other, and both must be studied in connection with the sagas and all the Teutonic traditions and folk-lore in order to get a comprehensive idea of the asa-faith.
These sagas are not to be so forgotten or disproved as to take away from poetry old periphrases which great skalds have been pleased with.
From these banners would grow sagas of dragons encountered and slain.
The Eddas are filled with the names of famous horses, and the Sagas contain many stories of good steeds, in whom their owners trusted and believed as sacred to this or that particular god.
The Sagas contain many stories which, while written in glorification of the 'giant' race, relate the destruction of their chiefs by the magical powers of the dwarfs.
In the sagas of Vinland the Skroelings are spoken of as fierce and treacherous.
In the sagas Asgard was described as being on a mountain at the top of the world.
The scene was to be in his own country, among the lonesome grandeur of its untrodden glaciers and the stark sublimity of its burned-out plains, and the story was to be from one of the fiery Sagas of the same stern old land.
Why shouldn't there be another Wagner, an Icelandic Wagner, a Wagner with a still grander scene and still greater stories--the Sagas and Eddas of this stern old land?
All Irishmen may know roughly the same sort of things about Ireland; but it is absurd to say they all know the same things about Iceland, when they may include a scholar steeped in Icelandic sagas or a sailor who has been to Iceland.
The memory of its existence perishes, and the allusions made to it in the old Scandinavian Sagas gradually come to be considered poetical inventions or pious frauds.
Footnote: From internal evidence it is certain that the chronicle which contains these Sagas must have been written about the beginning of the thirteenth century.
This last place was the scene of one of the most curious and characteristic Sagas to be found in the whole catalogue of Icelandic chronicles.
Scattered through the Sagas are several notices of a distant country in the West, which is called Ireland ed Mekla--Great Ireland, or the White Man's land.
But the sagas are from the first and to the (at least genuine) last nothing if not national, domestic, and personal.
Even its daughter--or at least successor--Norse tongues produced nothing worthy to take up the tradition of the Sagasand the Poems.
For by Dr Vigfusson's own confession the strength of Icelandic literature consists in the sagas, and the sagas are the product of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Meanwhile Njala--the great sagas are all known by familiar diminutives of this kind--is accessible in English in the late Sir G.
All who have even a slight acquaintance withsagas know the extraordinary periphrases for common objects, for men and maidens, for ships and swords, that bestrew them.
In fact short sagas might be called thættir and vice versâ.
There is the spirit of combat, in which the Chansons de geste show the way, anticipating in time, if not quite equalling in intensity, the Sagasand the Nibelungenlied.
At other times theSagas were true accounts of the deeds of the Norse kings.
Sometimes the Sagas were sung in prose, at other times in verse.
Long before the Sagas were written down, the stories of the heroes were sung in halls and on battle-fields by the poets of the nation.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells us how the earl was driven into sullen enmity with Ethelred by Streone's brother, and the Danish Sagas record Godwine's first introduction by Jarl Ulf to Cnut after the battle of Sherston.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sagas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
