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Such parallels were pointed out as early as 1760 by Gottlieb Emanuel von Haller and the pastor Simeon Uriel Freudenberger in a book titled "William Tell, a Danish Fable" (German: Der Wilhelm Tell, ein dänisches Mährgen). This book offended Swiss citizens, and a copy of it was burnt publicly at the Altdorf square.
De Haller’s subsequent book, William Tell: a Danish Fable, provoked outrage in Switzerland. There was a court action, a copy of the book was publicly burned in the Altdorf square once dominated ...
Sep 11, 2023 · Likewise, there is even the suggestion that William Tell was actually Danish, or at least the story was. To the horror of the Swiss, Tell’s apple-shooting antics bear a remarkable resemblance to an old Viking tale that predates the Swiss legend by around 400 years.
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Apr 29, 2024 · 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 forced to shoot an apple from his son’s head, was arrested for threatening the governor’s ...
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Oct 1, 2020 · Having lionized Tell for centuries, the Swiss had a hard time swallowing the bitter pill of their misguided history. According to Curious Historian, de Haller's book William Tell: A Danish Fable "caused such an outcry that people publicly burned the book." De Haller himself was only saved from execution after he made an earnest public apology.
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The motif was studied and written about as early as 1760 by Gottlieb Emmanuel von Haller and the pastor Simeon Uriel Freudenberger in a pamphlet in French and German with the title Der Wilhelm Tell, ein dänisches Mährgen (William Tell, a Danish Fable). During the 19th century, several scholars wrote about the internationalism of the motif.
lished his pamphlet in Latin: William Tell, Danish Fable (Kielholz 1931:295) in which he argued that the legend of William Tell had a Danish origin (Fiske 1902:4; Delepierre 1868:75). He retracted his claim and thus it was only his essay that was burned (Bendix 1989:33). A rebuttal was published the very same year by J. A. F. Balthasar of
