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[[File:Wilhelm Tell Denkmal Altdorf um 1900.jpeg|thumb|A monument to William Tell in the town of [[Altdorf, Switzerland]].]]
'''William Tell''' ({{langWithName|de|German|''Wilhelm Tell''}}; {{langWithName|fr|French|''Guillaume Tell''}}; {{langWithName|it|Italian|''Guglielmo Tell''}}) is a [[folk hero]] from [[Switzerland]]. In the story William Tell is a man who refused to bow down to pole set up by an army who had taken over the place he lived. He was arrested and forced to shoot an [[apple]] off his son's head with a [[crossbow]], if he did not both he and his son would be killed. Tell shot the apple off the son's head and did not harm his son. He is considered a legend and his actions helped form Switzerland as a nation.
== Adaptions ==
* ''Wilhelm Tell'' (''William Tell''), a play by [[Friedrich Schiller]]
* ''Guillaume Tell'' (''William Tell''), an opera by [[Gioacchino Rossini]], based on Schiller's play
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[[Category:Swiss people]]
'''William Tell''' ({{langWithName|de|German|''Wilhelm Tell''}}; {{langWithName|fr|French|''Guillaume Tell''}}; {{langWithName|it|Italian|''Guglielmo Tell''}}) is a [[folk hero]] from [[Switzerland]]. In the story William Tell is a man who refused to bow down to pole set up by an army who had taken over the place he lived. He was arrested and forced to shoot an [[apple]] off his son's head with a [[crossbow]], if he did not both he and his son would be killed. Tell shot the apple off the son's head and did not harm his son. He is considered a legend and his actions helped form Switzerland as a nation.
== Adaptions ==
* ''Wilhelm Tell'' (''William Tell''), a play by [[Friedrich Schiller]]
* ''Guillaume Tell'' (''William Tell''), an opera by [[Gioacchino Rossini]], based on Schiller's play
{{Switzerland-stub}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tell, William}}
[[Category:Swiss people]]