Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagamen
Literary usage of Sagamen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Discovery of America by the Northmen: In the Tenth Century by North Ludlow Beamish, Carl Christian Rafn (1841)
"There the unerring memories of the Skalds and sagamen were the depositories of
past events, which, handed down, from age to age, one unbroken line of ..."
2. The Norse Discovery of America: A Compilation in Extensió of All the Sagas by Arthur Middleton Reeves, North Ludlow Beamish, Rasmus Björn Anderson, James William Buel (1907)
"There the unerring memories of the Skalds and sagamen were the depositories of
past events, which, handed down from age to age in one unbroken line of ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The sagamen treated their material with poetic freedom and in a perfectly objective
manner; ... The sagamen tell their story with poetic freedom. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Having lived so long in the world of mediaeval romancers and sagamen, ...
They take us back to the springtime of the world, as the sagamen and the romancers ..."
5. A Student's History of the United States by Edward Channing (1902)
"grim colonization which had been passed on orally from man to man for all this
time; but this parallel is not a precise one, for the sagamen were trained to ..."
6. A Students' History of the United States by Edward Channing (1898)
"grim colonization which had been passed on orally from man to man for all this
time; but this parallel is not a precise one, for the sagamen were trained to ..."
7. Some Great Stories and how to Tell Them by Richard Thomas Wyche (1910)
"Before the art of writing or of making books, before even the runes or picture
writing, there were story-tellers. sagamen, scalds ..."
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