Sentence examples for saga material from inspiring English sources

The lives of the saints were mainly works of fantasy, increasingly incorporating elements from folklore and saga material.

He exploited these two fields in what he described as his system of "crop rotation": saga material was turned into plays, contemporary material into novels or peasant tales.

The great codex Lebor Na Huidre (The Book of the Dun Cow), written early in the 12th century, showed older treatments of saga material than are found in The Book of Leinster, written years later.

In a long poem, Fianna bátar in Emain ("The Warriors Who Were in Emain"), Cináed ua Artacáin summed up the saga material, while Fland Mainistrech collected the work of generations of fili who had laboured to synchronize Ireland's history with that of the outside world.

It seems likely that this was taken by the scribe from existing saga material.

This ambiguous theme and the lack of detailed contemporary records of his life have led to a variety of interpretations of the saga material by modern scholars.

Unlike 2010's WikiLeaks saga, Snowden's material had nothing to do with military secrets.

The "wild-man-of-the-woods" cycle associated with Suibne Geilt had its origins in Strathclyde, where Irish and Brythonic literature must have been in contact at an early date; this mixture of hagiography, saga, and nature material was one of the most attractive stories of the later period.

A prolific writer, Fouqué gathered much of his material from Scandinavian sagas and myths.

Almost all offer formulaic genre material – thrillers, police procedurals, sagas and romances – written according to commercial-fiction norms.

In getting to grips with the Juncker saga, Vestager has already obtained the Luxleaks material.