Saga (disambiguation)

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, Saga, the capital of Saga Prefecture, Japan
• Saga, Tibet, a town and the seat of Saga County
• Saga County, a county in Tibet
• Saga Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
  • 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 (comic book), 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