WaterMeadMilkA story told aloudA record keptThe naming of what happened
Invocation Approach
Tone
Deep and attentive
Address
SágaShe of SökkvabekkrKeeper of the Record
Relationship
The one who drinks with Odin and remembers
Warning
She is a witness not a judge
Resonance
Those keeping records those telling what happened
Symbols
Golden cupsThe sunken bankThe recordDeep water
Mythology Summary
Sága dwells at Sökkvabekkr, 'the sunken bank', and Grímnismál 7 says that Odin and Sága drink there every day, glad, from golden cups, while the cool waves flow over the place. Gylfaginning 36 lists her second among the goddesses and gives her the same dwelling and no office; that is all the sources say. Because her name is close to the word for a seeress and to the verb 'to see', she is often read as another name for Frigg — an inference, not an attested identity.
Modern Practice
Sága is called for the long memory — the record, the archive, the story told accurately — and for the shared cup that seals an agreement to remember. The practice is to write it down and to tell it aloud.