saga

Etymology 1

From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw.

noun

1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
   Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United. October 1, 2011, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0-4 Man City”, in BBC Sport
   According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle. 2013-06-08, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55

Etymology 2

From Latin saga, plural of sagum.

noun

1. plural of sagum