Tale vs. Saga — What's the Difference?

A fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted

Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia. The most famous saga-genre is the Íslendingasögur (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between Icelandic families.

A number or total

A prose narrative usually written in Iceland between 1120 and 1400, dealing with the families that first settled Iceland and their descendants, with the histories of the kings of Norway, and with the myths and legends of early Germanic gods and heroes.

A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelation

A modern prose narrative that resembles a saga.

A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.

A long detailed report

A deliberate lie; a falsehood.

An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.

A narrative of real or imaginary events; a story.

Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

(Archaic) A tally or reckoning; a total.

Plural of sagum

An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.

A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

A narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.

(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.

(obsolete) Number; tally; quota.

(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.

(obsolete) Speech; language.

(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.

A count; declaration.

A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.

A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

To speak; discourse; tell tales.

To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

See Tael.

That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.

A count or declaration.

To tell stories.

A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;

A trivial lie;