Wilhelm Tell

Mosaik dari William Tell di Swiss National Museum.

Wilhelm Tell

Biografi
Kelahiran	Kanton Uri

Wilhelm Tell (bahasa Prancis: Guillaume Tell; bahasa Italia: Guglielmo Tell, bahasa Inggris: William Tell) adalah pahlawan legenda dari Swiss pada abad ke-14. Ia dikenal sebagai penembak jitu dengan panah. Gioachino Rossini menulis sebuah opera mengenai kisahnya.

Pada abad ke 14 dia dihukum memanah apel di atas kepala anaknya namun dia berhasil memanah apelnya semenjak itu dia disebut legenda dan hukuman ini disebut hukuman paling menantang

Bacaan Lanjutan

• Bergier, Jean-François. Wilhelm Tell: Realität und Mythos. München: Paul List Verlag, 1990.
• Fiske, John. Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology, 1877. Ch. 1: (On-line) Quotes Saxo Grammaticus, the ballad of William of Cloudeslee, and instances other independent occurrences.
• Head, Randolph C. "William Tell and His Comrades: Association and Fraternity in the Propaganda of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Switzerland." in The Journal of Modern History 67.3 (1995): 527–557.
• Keightley, Thomas. Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance and Transmission from Country to Country. London: Whittaker, 1834.
• Öchsli, W. Die Anfänge der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft. Zürich, 1891.
• Rochholz, Ernst Ludwig, Tell und Gessler in Sage und Geschichte. Nach urkundlichen Quellen, Heilbronn, 1877 (online copy).
• Salis, J.-R. v.: Ursprung, Gestalt, und Wirkung des schweizerischen Mythos von Tell Diarsipkan 2005-04-25 di Wayback Machine.; Bern, 1973.
• Schärer, Arnold Claudio, Und es gab Tell doch, Lucerne, 1986, ISBN 3-85725-106-9, OCLC 19264018.

Pranala luar

• Wilhelm Tell Festival, New Glarus
• William Tell, Swissinfo special Diarsipkan 2012-09-25 di Wayback Machine.
• The Legend of William Tell by Markus Jud.
• The birth of the Swiss Confederation.
• William Tell is a lie Diarsipkan 2014-11-13 di Wayback Machine.; "Coopzeitung" 28/2004, interview with historian Sablonier, Zurich, translated
• Translation of Grimm's Saga No. 298 "The Three Tells" Diarsipkan 2012-10-01 di Wayback Machine.