Talk:William Tell

message: For petesake, how far was Tell from the target?  That's the entire crux of the matter, but NOBODY even offers a wild guess.  If he stood six paces from his son, no big deal.  If he was 50 paces, using a 14th century weapon, that could be a huge deal.  BT August 26 '06.
:look, the event is legendary; it if never even took place, it is futile to speculate about hte distance, don't you think? (ᛎ) qɐp 18:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. 91.138.73.74 (talk) 16:34, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

text: If you read the story you can infer the approx distance for your self - Tell first tried to refuse, prayed to god for help and decided to kill Gessler if he killed his son. therefore it clearly was a big deal to him. 91.138.73.74 (talk) 16:34, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How Far? 

message: Someone added fictitious birth and death dates . I have removed them again. First, there were unsourced, and second, it is unknown whether this mythical figure existed at all. Any birth/death dates are pure speculation and based at best on the legend itself. At best, one could add a (sourced!) statement saying that according to the legend, he was born/died at such-and-such dates. Lupo 08:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth and death dates 

message: You're right, this would need a source. If I only remembered where I got that from... :-( At least I think I wrote that... yup, on March 29, 2005. Here's another mention of this, by one Charles E. Ritterbrand in a speech given on August 1, 2004. I'll keep looking, though... Lupo 21:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: well done, thank you Lupo. --dab (𒁳) 13:35, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book burned in Altdorf 

message: Dab, the 1350 in the German article seems to be the result of some error. Until December 4, 2006, they had also 1354. Then some edit went wrong and garbled it. In the next edit on december 5, 2006, it was "fixed" to 1350. That is wrong. According to Meyer's Konversationslexikon, Tschudi has 1354. I'll change that back and add the ref. Lupo 22:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Besides, they also have the November 18, 1307 date... seems to come from Tschudi, too. Lupo 23:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  1350 or 1354? 

message: So is William Tell particularly revered by German-speaking Swiss people, or is he a hero throughout the Confederation?  The answer might be an appropriate item for the article. Cranston Lamont (talk) 17:42, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal Appeal? 

message: did anyone notice the similaaties to the biiblical book of Esther with idea of the hero not bowing when an opressor told hi to bow, then the tyrant issued an evil decree because of the defiance but the decree didnt work and it ended up as the villian dying?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.238.246.127 (talk) 22:57, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Esther 

message: despite your excellent and informative summary  i am amazed you did not mention the 60s tv series starring Conrad Phillips  he helped continue the legend of Tell as much as anyone   in fact i recall at the time he  conrad was as popular in switzerland as tell himself and was highly regarded for his portrayal whether the real tell existed is open to question  but in the hearts of many an english child  he did  thanks to Conrad Phillips        yours  Boulevarde  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boulevarde (talk • contribs) 00:25, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the WILLIAM TELL television film series was made in the late 1950s. DavidRayner (talk) 08:51, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  william tell  conrad phillips 

message: Is it noteworthy that there is an achievement in the game Team Fortress 2 called William Tell overkill? It requires the player to shoot an enemy with a bow pinning his head to the wall with the arrow.
:I think something like this is better mentioned at Team Fortress. Lupo 13:51, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No. 69.117.214.206 (talk) 05:38, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Team Fortress 2 

message: "Aegidius Tschudi from Glarus merged several earlier accounts of the William Tell myth into the story that is summarized above."
All elements of the story in your summary are already present in the weisse Buch von Sarnen and in the Kronika von der loblichen Eydtgenossenschaft. Therefore, the sentence quoted can not be true. I suggest that this sentence be deleted. 91.138.73.74 (talk) 14:48, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Merging? 

message: The following sentence appears in the introductory section for this article:
” According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow for apple shot and he who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Austrian dukes of the House of Habsburg positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri.”
I cannot for the life of me understand how this sentence is supposed to be read or how it could possibly be correctly written. It is beyond me how no one has corrected this jumble of utter nonsense, I’m getting a headache just looking at it again now. 69.117.214.206 (talk) 05:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impossible to parse sentence in introductory section