If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate, linking him with the "Georgian poets") (9 January 1881 - 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at Malvern College, and at the University of Manchester.
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.