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They are not myths. Some contain mythic elements (particularly the "Legendary Sagas") but there is a reason that they are called "Legendary" and not "Mythological". There is also a reason that they are divided into categories:
King's sagas
Icelander's Sagas
Icelander's Short Tales
Contemporary sagas
Chivalric Sagas
Legendary Sagas
They deal with different things and serve different purposes. You cannot just decide that they are all either "true" or "false". Of course, some elements cross over (so that some of the Legendary Sagas have verifiable historical detail in them, and some of the Icelander's Sagas have legendary elements) but you are looking at a huge body of work that deserves serious respect and study - not a simplistic "myth or true".
Pete
God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will,we will be free!
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