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What were the sagas of Old Norse literature?

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The bulk of medieval Norse literature, and the most readable today, survives in the form of sagas , that is, prose narratives, sometimes interspersed with verse, which relate the lives of legendary or historical figures with objectivity and skillful characterization and which reflect the old Icelandic devotion to personal honor and family.

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