Wilhelm Tell

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 ; Bern, 1973.
 Schärer, Arnold Claudio, Und es gab Tell doch, Lucerne, 1986, ISBN 3-85725-106-9, .

Pranala luar 

 Wilhelm Tell Festival, New Glarus
 William Tell, Swissinfo special 
 The Legend of William Tell by Markus Jud.
 The birth of the Swiss Confederation.
 William Tell is a lie ; "Coopzeitung" 28/2004, interview with historian Sablonier, Zurich, translated
 Translation of Grimm's Saga No. 298 "The Three Tells" 

Legenda
Sejarah Swiss
Abad Pertengahan