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saga

prose genre written in the Old Norse language
Intangible literary_genre Q180494
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Summary

saga is a literary genre[1]. saga draws 3,306 Wikipedia views per month (literary genre category, ranking #65 of 487).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: traditional literature[3], Old Norse literature[4]
  • Part of: Old Norse literature[5]
  • Commons category: Sagas[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sagas[7]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[10], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[12], Norsk Haandlexikon[13]
  • Different from: Norse sagas[14], Saga[15], oral lore[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Narration[17]

Why It Matters

saga has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] saga is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Buddenbrooks Heimskringla Njáls saga

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0273632-sagy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0273632-sagy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → Q1357187
    Part of → Old Norse literature
    Instance of → —
    Different from → Norse sagas, Saga, oral lore
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 121, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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