The Story of Kullervo

The Story of Kullervo is a prose version of the Kullervo cycle in the Karelian and Finnish epic poem Kalevala. Translated and retold by J.R.R. Tolkien when he was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1914 to 1915, it was an unsettled period for the author, which is thought to be reflected in the story's dark subject matter. It also marks "the first time that J.R.R. Tolkien, who had been a poet until then, began writing prose".
Known as a source (among others) for the First Age character Túrin Turambar, Kullervo was the center of Tolkien's efforts in 1914, as he was "trying to turn one of the stories [of the Kalevala] — which is really a very great story and most tragic – into a short story".The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter no. 1 (October 1914)
It was edited by Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger in 2010 and republished in August of 2015 by HarperCollins.
==Summary==
The Story of Kullervo tells of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.
==Inspiration==
Much of the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium was influenced by the Kalevala, a work of epic poetry from Finnish folklore which was compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century. It is said that Tolkien learned the Finnish language just so that he could read the Kalevala in its original language.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Die storie van Kullervo
Albanian 	Historia e Kullervos
Arabic 	قصه خولليرڢو ?
Armenian 	Կւլլերվո-ի պատմությունը
Azerbaijani 	Kullervonun hekayəsi
Basque 	Kullervo-ren istorioa
Belarusian Cyrillic	Гісторыя Куллерво
Bosnian 	Priča o Kullervou
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Историята на кулерво
Catalan 	La història d'Kullervo
Cebuano 	Ang Sugilanon ni Kullervo
Chichewa 	Nkhani ya Kullervo
Corsican 	A Storia di Kullervo
Croatian 	Priča o Kullervo
Czech 	Příběh Kullervo
Danish 	Historien om Kullervo
Dutch 	Het Verhaal van Kullervo
Estonian 	Kullervo lugu
Filipino 	Ang Kuwento ng Kullervo
Finnish 	Kullervon tarina
French 	L'Histoire de Kullervo
Frisian 	It ferhaal fan Kullervo
Galician 	A historia de Kullervo
Georgian 	კულერვოს ამბავი
German 	Die Geschichte von Kullervo
Greek 	Η ιστορία του Κυλλερυο
Gujarati 	કુલ્લર્વોની વાર્તા
Haitian Creole 	A istwa de Kullervo
Hawaiian 	Ka Moolelo o Kullervo
Hungarian 	A Kullervo története
Italian 	La Storia di Kullervo
Japanese 	クレルヴォの物語
Kannada 	ದಿ ಸ್ಟೋರಿ ಆಫ್ ಕುಲ್ಲೆರ್ವೊ
Latvian 	Stāsts par Kullervo
Lithuanian 	Kullervo istorija
Macedonian Cyrillic	Приказната за Куллерво
Malagasy 	Ny Tantaran' ny Kullervo
Malayalam 	ദി സ്റ്റോറി ഓഫ് കുല്ലെറോ
Maltese 	L-storja tal-Kullervo
Maori 	Ko te korero o Kullervo
Norwegian 	Historien om Kullervo
Polish 	Opowieść o Kullervo
Portuguese 	A história de Kullervo
Romanian 	Povestea lui Kullervo
Russian 	История Куллерво
Scottish Gaelic 	An Sgeulachd Kullervo
Serbian 	Прича о Куллервоу (Cyrillic) Priča o Kullervou (Latin)
Slovak 	Príbeh Kullervova
Slovenian 	Zgodba o Kullervo
Somalian 	Sheekada Kullervo
Spanish 	La historia de Kullervo
Swahili 	Hadithi ya Kullervo
Swedish 	Kullervos berättelse
Tajik Cyrillic 	Ҳикояи Куллерво
Telugu 	ది స్టోరీ ఆఫ్ కుల్లెర్రో
Thai 	เรื่องราวของกุลเลร์โว
Tongan 	Ko e Talanoa 'o e Kullervo
Turkish 	Kullervo'in hikayesi
Uzbek 	Куллервонинг ҳикояси (Cyrillic) Kullervoning hikoyasi (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Câu chuyện của Kullervo
Welsh 	Stori o Kullervo
Xhosa 	Ibali leKullervo
Yiddish 	די סטאָרי פון קולווערוואָ
Yucatec Maya 	Le k'ajláayo' Kullervo
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