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, and this 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".

It was edited by Verlyn Flieger in 2010 and republished in August of 2015 by HarperCollins.

Summary

The Story of Kullervo tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.

Translations around the World

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	Det 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