[Kullervo, the hero of Kalevala xxxi-xxxvi, is represented as a child of misfortune, who by no possible means could do good. After a series of crimes and disasters, rivalling the history of Oedipus, he determines to kill himself.]
[2] Acc. sing. of adj. terävä, sharp, formed from terä, edge, with affix va.
[3] Acc. sing. of miekka, sword; kk becomes k in closed syllable (rule 25); in l. 323, occurs the ablative sing. with affix of 3rd pers. pron.
[4] These four verbs are all formed with the affix ele (v. p. 111) from the simple forms katsoa, kääntää, kysyä, tietää. The vi is the termination of the 3rd. pers. sing. pres. (p. 62).
[7] Particle, whether.
[8] Acc. of demonstr. pron. tuo.
[9] 3rd pers. sing. conditional of root teke, inf. tehdä, of 3rd conjugation. The phrase mieli tekee followed by an accusative (here tuon) means his mind drives him to, or he has a mind to. Cf. the first lines of the Kalevala Mieleni minun tekevi ... lähteäni laulamahan, my mind incites me to begin singing.
[10] = syödä (p. 224) 1st inf. of root syö (pres indic. syön), depending on phrase mieli tekisi (p. 188).
[11] Part. sing. (object of syöä) of syyllinen, guilty, formed from syy, cause or guilt, with affix llise (p. 47).
[14] Part. sing. of vere (nom. veri); cf. mieltä for form.
[16] 3rd sing. imperf. of miettiä (2nd conj.) to think over, here meaning understand.
[17] Genitive sing. of stem miehe (nom. mies).
[18] 3rd sing. imperf. of arvata; pres. indic. arvaan, to think, understand, conjugated like root lupata, p. 101.
[19] Genitive sing. of uro, hero, which is more usual in the form uros (stem uroho, uroo).
[20] Accusative sing. (object of arvasi) of pakina, speech.
[21] Vastasi, 3rd sing. imperf. of vastata, conjugated like root lupata.
[24] Negative conditional of syö, composed of 1st pers. sing. of neg. verb, and stem of conditional (p. 70). By rule 4 syö + isi becomes söisi.
[25] Adessive sing. of mieli (v. No. 6) with affix of 1st pers. sing. with my mind, i.e. with pleasure.
[27] ki is an adverbial affix (p. 118) meaning even; syyttömän is the genitive sing. of syytön, guiltless (stem syyttömä), a caritive adjective formed from syy, with suffix ttoma, just as syyllinen is formed with suffix llise (v. pp. 47 and 37).
[28] Genitive sing. of caritive adjective viaton, formed from vika.
[29] Blue-stockinged, a compd. of sini, blue, and sukka, stocking.
[30] Gen. sing. of äijö (= äijä), an old man.
[31] Nom. sing. of stem lapse, child.
[32] Accusative sing. of pää, head, here the hilt of a sword.
[33] Particle of emphasis frequently used in Kalevala, and not the verb substantive.
[35] 3rd pers. sing. of sysätä, to drive, conj. like luvata.
[36] Accusative sing. of perä, end.
[37] 3rd pers. sing. impf. of painaa, to force down or into.
[38] = kankaasen (p. 225), illative sing. of stem kankaha, nom. kangas (p. 38 and rule 26), a bare plain.
[39] Accusative sing. of stem kärke, nom. kärki, here the point of the sword.
[41] = rintaansa, illative sing. of rinta, breast, with suffix of 3rd pers. pron.
[42] Nominative sing. of pronoun.
[45] Illative sing. of pron. se, but here the force of the illative is lost; literally to this, up till now.
[46] Acc. sing. of surma, fate, with pron. aff. of 3rd pers.
[47] 3rd sing. imperf. of root suketa, 1st infin. sueta, to make, or prepare, conjugated like luvata.
[49] 3rd sing. imperf. of kohtaella, to meet (one’s fate); cf. kohtalo, fate.
[50] Genitive sing. of nuori (stem nuore), young.
[52] Compound of proper name Kullervo and uros, hero (stem uroho).
[53] Nominative sing. end, genitive lopun; cf. loppua, to end, intrans., lopettaa trans.
[54] Adv. aina, always, with suffix kin. Lönnrot explains this word as åtminstone, visst; it seems here almost pleonastic, and cannot be rendered for ever.
[55] Partitive sing. of uros (stem uroho), hero, used here as the genitive.
[56]Transcriber’s Note: note 56 was omitted.
[57] Partitive sing. of compound adj. formed from kova hard and osainen (stem -se) fated; adjective of osa, share.