Saga (disambiguation)
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Sagas are stories in Old Norse about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history.
Saga may also refer to:
Places
- Saga, Russia, a rural locality (a selo) in the Sakha Republic, Russia
- Saga, Tibet, a town and the seat of Saga County
- Saga County, a county in Tibet
- Saga Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
- Saga, Saga, the capital of Saga Prefecture
- Saga Domain, Japanese domain in the Edo period, which covers the area of current Saga Prefecture and part of Nagasaki Prefecture
- Saga, a district in Kyoto, Japan
- Saga, alternative name of Suquh, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
People
- Emperor Saga (785–842), ruler of Japan from 809 to 823
- Nabeshima clan, also known as the Saga family, a clan of Japanese nobles
Art, entertainment, and media
Comics
- Saga (comics), comic book series created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples, and published monthly by Image Comics
Fictional characters
- Gemini Saga, one of the twelve Gold Saints in Saint Seiya, created by Masami Kurumada
- Kamen Rider Saga, the third Rider from Kamen Rider Kiva
- Saga, the protagonist of the anime A Little Snow Fairy Sugar
- Saga Norén, one of the protagonists of the Swedish/Danish TV series The Bridge
Film
- Ultraman Saga, the 45th anniversary Ultraman movie
Gaming
- Saga (2008 video game), an MMORTS computer game developed by Silverlode Interactive
- SaGa (series), a video game franchise by Square Enix
- SAGA System, a role-playing game system
- Urza's Saga, an expansion set of Magic: The Gathering
Music
- Artists
- Saga (alice nine), bassist of Visual Kei band Alice Nine
- Saga (band), a Canadian rock band
- Saga (singer) (born 1975), Swedish female nationalist singer
- Albums
- Saga (album), the band's first album
- Sagas (album), a 2008 album by German folk metal band Equilibrium
- Events
- Saga (event), an annual musical festival organized by Royal College, Colombo
Literature
- Saga (2006 novel), by Conor Kostick
- SAGA, a 2013 play performed by Wakka Wakka Productions
- Family saga, literary genre
- German Sagas, a collection of old German tales, edited by the brothers Grimm
- Sagas of Icelanders, the original sagas of Iceland (stories of the settlers)
- Saga, a 1940 novel by Erico Verissimo
Periodicals
- Saga (magazine), men's adventure pulp magazine, 1950s-80s; see Macfadden Publications
Businesses
- Saga Airlines, a Turkish airline
- Saga Radio Group, a defunct British radio broadcaster
- Saga Falabella, a department store chain in Peru
- Saga Group, British company focused on the needs of people over 50
- Saga Musical Instruments, an American manufacturer and wholesale distributor of stringed instruments
- Saga Petroleum, a Norwegian petroleum company acquired by Norsk Hydro in 1999
- Saga Petroleum LLC, an American petroleum company
- Saga Communications, a broadcasting company that owns and operates stations in 26 markets in the United States
- Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement, the French state shipping line founded in 1919
Computers
- SAGA C++ Reference Implementation, an implementation of the OGF SAGA standard
- SAGA GIS, a geographic information system
- Simple API for Grid Applications, The Open Grid Forum SAGA (Simple API for Grid Applications) standard
Foods
- Saga (cheese), a blue cheese from Denmark
Mythology
- Sága, a goddess in Norse mythology
- Icelanders' sagas, prose histories mostly describing events that took place during and following the Age of Settlement
Organizations
- Smocking Arts Guild of America
- Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), the name of a literary group of American fantasy authors
Science
- 1163 Saga, an asteroid
- Akar Saga, the Malay name of a leguminous climber with hard, red seeds, Abrus precatorius
- Saga (genus), a genus of bush crickets in the family Tettigoniidae
- Saga, the Malay name of a tree with hard, red seeds, Adenanthera pavonina
- SAGA, Spt-Ada-Gcn5 Acetyltransferase, a histone acetyltransferase complex
- SAGA, Strömgren survey for Asteroseismology and Galactic Archaeology
Vehicles and vessels
- MS Saga (1972), a ferry operated by Swedish Lloyd 1972—1977
- Proton Saga, the first car produced by Malaysian auto manufacturer Proton
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