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The '''"Tale of Norna-Gest"''' is an [[The Icelandic Sagas (Literature)|Icelandic saga]] from [[The High Middle Ages|about 1300 AD]]. It can best be classified as a ''lygisaga'' a.k.a. "fairy-tale saga"<ref>The literal translation is, of course, 'lie-story'.</ref>, a literary [[Fairy Tale]].