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Kullervo's Curse by the Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela from 1899. It depicts a scene from the Kalevala in which Kullervo curses beasts from the woods to attack his tormenter, the Maiden of the North. Kullervo (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkulːerʋo]) is an ill-fated character in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled by Elias ...
The Story of Kullervo is a collection of several texts, including a prose version of the Kullervo cycle in Elias Lönnrot's Karelian and Finnish epic poem Kalevala, written by J. R. R. Tolkien when he was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1914 to 1915. That was an unsettled period for the author and this is thought to be ...
Tolkien stated that the tale of Kullervo in particular got him started on his legendarium: "the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own to fit my private languages was the tragic tale of the hapless Kullervo in the Finnish Kalevala".
There is the Children of Húrin, the tragic tale of Túrin Turambar and his sister Níniel – of which Túrin is the hero: a figure that might be said (by people who like that sort of thing, though it is not very useful) to be derived from elements in Sigurd the Volsung, Oedipus, and the Finnish Kullervo. [T 14]
Garth calls the resemblance "especially pertinent" since Tolkien wrote the poem while "immersed" in the Kalevala and was in the process of writing his Story of Kullervo. [7] In Garth's opinion, Tolkien was "attracted by the knotty confusions and illogical omissions in the Kalevala ", as "he wanted to fix the discontinuities and fill in the gaps.
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Kullervo premiered on 14 October 1913 with Madetoja conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Society. [2] It was the final number on a program that also included other orchestral novelties by Madetoja: the Concert Overture (Konserttialkusoitto; Op. 7, 1911); Melody and Little Romance (Melodia ja Pieni romanssi; Op. 17, 1913); Dance Vision (Tanssinäky; Op. 11; 1911); Merikoski, a cantata for mixed ...
Original – Kullervo, a character in Finnish mythology and the Kalevala, cursing cows, turning them into bears so that he can have revenge on a woman who tormented him. Kullervo grew up thinking his family was dead, raised by his family's "killer", was sold into slavery, unknowingly had sexual relations with his sister (leading to her suicide ...