Kullervo
Americannoun
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"Kullervo is the origin story for Shakespeare's Hamlet - a young man whose uncle kills his father and on whom he wreaks a terrible vengeance," says Verlyn Flieger.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2015
On Thursday JRR Tolkien's early story The Story of Kullervo will be published for the first time.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2015
"He was very much taken by the whole mythology," says Prof Verlyn Flieger of the University of Maryland, who edited the manuscript of The Story of Kullervo for publication.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2015
"Tolkien realised with The Story of Kullervo that language, culture and mythology are inextricably linked," Flieger says.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2015
Kullervo, Kalervo's offspring, With the very bluest stockings, 100 With his whip then struck his courser, With his beaded whip he lashed him.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Elias Lönnrot
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