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William Tell, Swiss legendary hero who symbolized the struggle for political and individual freedom. The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was.
- Chronicon Helveticum
In William Tell …the legend appears in the Chronicon...
- Chronicon Helveticum
According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Austrian dukes of the House of Habsburg positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri.
16 lut 2022 · First mentioned in the White Book of Sarnen, a collection of manuscripts dating from 1470, he became a household name thanks to Friedrich von Schiller's play 'Wilhelm Tell'. This is the story of Switzerland's iconic hero who has been held up as the personification of bravery ever since.
Wilhelm Tell – legendarna postać szwajcarskiego bohatera narodowego. Za rodzinne strony Wilhelma Tella uważa się miejscowość Bürglen w szwajcarskim kantonie Uri. Szwajcar nie chciał ukłonić się przed symbolem władzy cesarskiej, za co został ukarany przez austriackiego starostę Hermanna Gesslera.
Seven hundred years ago, William Tell shot an arrow through an apple on his son's head and launched the struggle for Swiss independence. Or did he?
26 lip 2004 · The legend says Tell came from the village of Bürglen in canton Uri. Tell was a hunter, a family man and skilled with a crossbow. But not much else was known about the peasant until...
The story of William Tell is world famous: an archer who shot an apple from the head of his son. But few people know the details of what precipitated this dramatic feat. This is what the legend tells…. It was on a Sunday in 1307 when William Tell set out from Bürglen, a small village in the Schächen Valley of Canton Uri, to visit his father ...
