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Kullervo

American  
[koo-ler-vaw] / ˈku lərˌvɔ /

noun

  1. (in theKalevala ) a slave who, after a series of tragic misadventures, kills himself.


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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

"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

Tolkien filled his own version of The Story of Kullervo with long descriptions of this foreign land.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2015

Now not long after this a child was born to Untamala, and she named him Kullervo.

From Finnish Legends for English Children by R. Eivind

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