Noun

(en noun)

An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.

Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport

, title= Blackburn 0-4 Man City , passage=Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}

Noun

(en noun)

A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

* (William Shakespeare)

Cease your quest of love.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01

, author=Katie L. Burke , title=Ecological Dependency , volume=101, issue=1, page=64 , magazine= citation , passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.}}

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.

* Herbert

Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.

(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.

* (William Shakespeare)

The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.

(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.

* (William Shakespeare)

What lawful quest have given their verdict?