en. Sadak, not knowing
who were the agents of these evils, laid his complaint before Amurath,
and then learnt that Kalasrad[^e] was in the seraglio. The sultan swore
not to force his love upon her till she had drowned the recollections of
her past life by a draught of the waters of oblivion. Sadak was sent on
this expedition. On his return, Amurath seized the goblet, and, quaffing
its contents, found "that the waters of oblivion were the waters of
death." He died, and Sadak was made sultan in his stead.--J. Ridley,
_Tales of the Genii_ ("Sadak and Kalasrad[^e]," ix. 1751).

=Sadaroubay.= So Eve is called in Indian mythology.

=Saddletree= (_Mr. Bartoline_), the learned saddler.

_Mrs. Saddletree_, the wife of Bartoline.--Sir W. Scott, _Heart of
Midlothian_ (time, George II.).

=Sadha-Sing=, the mourner of the desert.--Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon's
Daughter_ (time, George II.).

=Saemund Sigfusson=, surnamed "the Wise," an Icelandic priest and scald.
He compiled the _Elder_ or _Rythmical Edda_, often called _Saemund's
Edda_. This compilation contains not only mythological tales and moral
sentences, but numerous sagas in verse or heroic lays, as those of
V[:o]lung and Helg[^e], of Sigurd and Brynhilda, of Folsungs and
Niflungs (pt. ii.). Probably his compilation contained all the
mythological, heroic, and legendary lays extant at the period in which
he lived (1054-1133).

=Saga=, the goddess of history.--_Scandinavian Mythology._

=Saga and Edda.= The _Edda_ is the Bible of the ancient Scandinavians. A
saga is a book of instruction, generally, but not always, in the form of
a tale, like a Welsh "mabinogi." In the _Edda_ there are numerous sagas.
As our Bible contains the history of the Jews, religious songs, moral
proverbs, and religious stories, so the _Edda_ contained the history of
Norway, religious songs, a book of proverbs, and numerous stories. The
original _Edda_ was compiled and edited by Saemund Sigfusson, an
Icelandic priest and scald, in the eleventh century. It contains
twenty-eight parts or books, all of which are in verse.

Two hundred years later, Snorro Sturleson, of Iceland, abridged,
re-arranged, and reduced to prose the _Edda_, giving the various parts a
kind of dramatic form, like the dialogues of Plato. It then became
needful to distinguish these two works; so the old poetical compilation
is the _Elder_ or _Rythmical Edda_, and sometimes the _Saemund Edda_,
while the more modern wo