The Story of Kullervo

Draft Plot Synopses

A loose folio numbered 21 contains discontinuous jotted notes and on both sides rough plot outlines alternative to the continuous narrative. The use of the names Ilmarinen and Louhi is evidence that this precedes the main manuscript.

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Kalervo and his wife and son and daughter

Kullervo a boy child with his father Kalervo

The quarrel and raid of Untamo. The homestead laid waste — Kalervo slain and as Kullervo in anguish & all his folk and his wife is carried off by Untamo. She bears Kullervo and a younger sister in sorrow & anguish and tells them of the Tale of Kalervo.

Untam Kull. waxed to marvellous strength: his vow as

an infant — the knife — (his passionate resentful nature) his ill treatment by Untamo

His only friend his sister. K's misbehaviour and selling in slavery to Ilmarinen. His utter misery: here he speaks with wolves in the mountain. carving strange figures with his father’s knife

The cake of Louhi’s daughter: Rage and revenge of Kullervo: refuses to loose spell and is cursed by Ilmarinen’s dying wife. He flies from Ilmarinen and goes to destroying of Untamo: returning from his triumph he meets a maiden and forces her to dwell with him: he reveals his name and she runs wailing into the dark and flings herself over the savage falls.

Kullervo standing in sorrow beside the falls

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Quarrelsome mean Kalervo Kind mother

wretched elder sister & brother.

falls in with the Pohie-Lady of the Forest Who tells him where his mother is dwelling (give description) with his brother and daughters.

And he leaves his sorrow and rides to the homestead.

The meeting with his mother: he recounts and she recounts their ventures[?] lives since her slavery.

He finds his mother wailing, she has sought her younger and dearly loved daughter for three years in the woods and describes her.

Kullervo sees what has happ to his sister

and rides recklessly over the ways to the falls where he slays himself.

Or he can meet the maiden in the woodland while fleeing from Ilmarinen and to quench his sorrow^{3} go and devastate Untamo and rescue his mother from bondage discover it is his sister and ride back red with the blood of Untamo and slay himself at the Falls.

put the speech of Unt Kuli R. 36/40 ch met Kuli encounter[?] when his mother beseeches him to be more obedient to Untamo as a boy.

(Mother and Brother are glad he’s to go. Sister alone sorry)

Or make it thus after flight from Ilma he finds his people — then destroys Untamo gathering an [sic] magic army of his old friends the wolves and bears: Untamo curses enchants him and he wanders blinded through the forest. Comes to a village and sacks it slaying the ancient headsman and his wife and taking as wife by force his daughter.

Who asking him his lineage he reveals

she reveals his origin and how he has slain

both father and mother and despoiled his sister

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