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Updated: May 13, 2025
But now I must hasten off to gloomy Pohjola, there to slay the wicked Untamo, and myself be also slain. Having said this he also made ready his armour and ground his broadsword until it was as sharp as a razor. But before he went, he asked his father and brother and sister and mother if they would grieve when they heard of his death.
When Kullervo was only three months old he began to speak, and the first words which he uttered were these: 'When I have grown big and strong I will avenge the murder of my grandfather Kalerwoinen and his people. At this Untamo was greatly alarmed, and took counsel with his people as to what should be done with the child. At length they hit upon a plan.
'I shall journey to the dismal Northland, answered Kullervo, 'there to slay the wicked Untamo, who has killed all my kinsfolk. Then the witch said: 'Thou art wrong, for thy father and thy sisters escaped from Untamo's wrath, and now thy mother has joined them and they are living happily together on the distant borders of Kalevala. And when Kullervo begged her to tell him the way to them she did so, and he hastened off to find them.
So Untamo was afraid to give him any further employment about the house, but bade him go out and cut down the forest on the mountain side. Then Kullervo went to the smith and bade him make a huge axe of copper, and when it was ready he spent one day in sharpening it and another in making the handle, and then hastened off to the forest.
As soon as Untamo was gone, Kullervo set to work, using whole trees and raising the fence higher than the clouds; and when he had finished there was no gate to enter by, and the fence was so high that no one could climb over it.
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