Their eyes watered with the keen tang of the peat reek, till, tired with watching the squattering of ducks in farm puddles, they turned as usual upon the family sagaman, and demanded, with that militant assurance of youth which succeeds so often, that he should forthwith and immediately "tell them something.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

Men will dare much for the love of a woman, and that is why the sagaman records love episodes at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference

Love-making gets the novelist's tenderest interest and solicitude, but it receives little attention from the sagaman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference

The sagaman has a squirrel-like agility in climbing family trees, and he is well acquainted with their interlocking branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference

Jealousy was not the passion to loosen the tongue of the sagaman, and in so far as that is the theme of "King Erik," the play is not Old Norse in origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference

Origin of story telling and the story-sagaman and minstrel; the story in language, grammar, song, creative work, dramatization, etc.; the formal and expression of the spiritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Virginia Record] Reference

It will not seem strange to the student of English literature to find that this writer came under the influence of the old skalds and sagaman and spoke appreciative words concerning them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference

Origin of story telling and the story-sagaman and minstrel; the story in language, grammar, song, creative work, dramatization, etc.; the formal and expression of the spiritual; how to tell a tale — psychological principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [University of Virginia Record] Reference

Even Homer felt this need, and did not scruple to introduce not only second sight, but gods and goddesses, and to bring their supernatural agency to bear directly on the personages of his chant, and that far more freely than any Norse sagaman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

The sagaman consults poetical justice very well at first, and prepares us for an unfortunate end by depicting Grettir as, though valiant and in a way not ungenerous, yet not merely an incorrigible scapegrace, but somewhat unamiable and even distinctly ferocious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

The sagaman was epic in his tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference

He is a better sagaman than I. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Norsemen in the West] Reference

Men say that I am no bad sagaman. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference