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"Sagen," best translated as "legends," are supposed to have actually happened, very often at a particular time and place, and they draw much of their power from this fact.
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In the thirties, as the trials and purges in Moscow frightened and divided Communists, Seghers wrote some of her most beautiful and enigmatic tales: “Die schönsten Sagen vom Räuber Woynok” (1938, The Most Beautiful Legends about the Robber Woynok), “Sagen von Artemis” (1938, Legends about Artemis), and “Die drei Bäume” (written 1940, The Three Trees).
Anna Seghers. 2009
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Folklorists sometimes divide oral tales into two main groups: "Märchen" and "Sagen".
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Muselmänner, aus arabischen Quellen zusammengetragen, und mit jüdischen Sagen verglichen (Frankfort-on-Main, 1845).
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Vorbilde Erzählungen für 1001 Nächte theils erdichtete, theils nach mündlichen Sagen, oder frühern schriftlichen Aufzeichnungen, bearbeitete, dass er aber entweder sein Werk nicht vollendete, oder dass ein Theil desselben verloren ging, so dass das Fehlende von
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Those traits I had noticed about the time we went on half parcels back in Sagen.
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OCTOBER 22: - We arrived in Sagen about 0700 on this day and from the train we marched to Stalag Luft III.
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With the exception of a few of the days on our migration from Sagen, our worst days as Kriegies were those at Moosburg.
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OCTOBER 20: We left Dulag on this day for our permanent camp at Sagen, Germany. (90 miles southeast of Berlin).
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It may not be prepared as well as we had back at Sagen but it will be adequate for us not to starve.
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