Sentence examples for old saga from inspiring English sources

In 1979, for Thames Television, he wrote a coda to his old saga.

Sometimes they were combined with folktale elements, as was the case with the very old saga of Fergus mac Léti, which was rewritten, perhaps in the 14th century, to include a story of a people of tiny stature the leprechauns.

The idea of the omnipotent ring must have come directly from Wagner; nothing quite like it appears in the old sagas.

Behind the debate lies the complex half-century-old saga of flood insurance.

So what has happened to the age-old saga of love between men and women?

A further chapter in the sputtering, 80-year-old saga known as Madness at Muroc, a tale of dry-lake racing, high-stakes gambling, million-dollar cars and Hollywood hot-rodders, is about to be written.

In Northern Ireland, McFate discovered something very like what Kilcullen found in West Java: insurgency runs in families and social networks, held together by persistent cultural narratives — in this case, the eight-hundred-year-old saga of "perfidious Albion".

The latest development in a near-150-year-old saga made headlines this week: an armchair detective has used DNA evidence to claim that Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper, the infamous figure who murdered and mutilated women in the East End of London in 1888.

Bravo, Oct. 3 at 8. STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS Continuing the now-generations-old saga, George Lucas moves the story to television with the 20-year-old Anakin Skywalker, who interacts with Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and various Jedi Knights, in computer-animated form.

Big budget spy caper Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation surpassed expectations to open in top spot at the US box office this weekend with an impressive $56m, just short of a record bow for the fifth instalment in the two-decade-old saga inspired by Bruce Geller's 1960s TV show.

An exotic element was represented by The Taking of Troy and The Story of Alexander, which appeared in the oldest saga lists, but classical learning had comparatively little effect until the next period.