A saga is a story in Old Norse about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history.

Saga, 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 (city), 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
  • Saga (singer) (born 1975), Swedish singer

Arts and entertainment

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
  • Saga Anderson, one of two main playable characters in the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2

Gaming

  • Saga: Rage of the Vikings, a 1998 video game by Cryo Interactive
  • Saga (2008 video game), an MMORTS computer game developed by Silverlode Interactive
  • SaGa, a video game series by Square Enix
  • SAGA System, a role-playing game system
  • SAGA (Scripts for Animated Graphic Adventures), a game engine used in Inherit the Earth
  • SAGA (wargame), a historical miniature wargame published by Gripping Beast and Studio Tomahawk
  • 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 white 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 1940 novel by Erico Verissimo
  • SAGA (play), a 2013 play performed by Wakka Wakka Productions
  • Saga, a 1997 novel by Tonito Benacquista

Other arts and entertainment

  • Saga (comics), a comic book series published monthly by Image Comics
  • Ultraman Saga, the 45th anniversary Ultraman movie

Businesses

  • Saga Airlines, a Turkish airline
  • Saga Corporation, a defunct food service management company that is now part of Sodexo
  • Saga Radio Group, a defunct British radio broadcaster
  • Saga Falabella, a department store chain in Peru
  • 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 plc, a British travel and insurance company focused on the needs of people over 50
  • Saga Press, an American publisher
  • Saga Rail, a defunct train operator in Sweden
  • Saga (restaurant), a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City
  • Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement, the French state shipping line founded in 1919
  • Saga Television Station, a television station in Saga Prefecture, Japan

Computing

  • SAGA C++ Reference Implementation, an implementation of the OGF SAGA standard
  • SAGA GIS, a geographic information system
  • Saga interaction pattern, a design pattern for implementing a long-running transactions (on distributed computing)
  • Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA), a standard for distributed computing from the Open Grid Forum

Organizations

  • Sexuality and gender acceptance (SAGA)
  • Smocking Arts Guild of America
  • Society of American Graphic Artists
  • 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 (bush cricket), a genus of European bush crickets
  • 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
  • SAGA, a stochastic variance reduction algorithm for mathematical optimisation
  • SAGA, a European quantum communication satellite

Transportation

  • , a ferry operated by Swedish Lloyd 1972–1977
  • Alpha Saga, a 2022– American electric compact sedan
  • Proton Saga, a 1985–present Malaysian subcompact car

Other uses

  • Saga (magazine), men's adventure pulp magazine published by Macfadden Publications in the 1950s–80s
  • Saga (cheese), a blue cheese from Denmark
  • Sága, a goddess in Norse mythology
  • Japanese gunboat Saga, a Japanese gunboat

See also

  • Sagas (disambiguation)