Biography of William Tell

William Tell – long had a reputation for historical person and recognized by the Swiss national hero. New science shifted the origin of tales about clever arrow on the ground of comparative literature and part mythology. In the songs, and legends of the Germanic peoples motive of skillful needle plays an important role. Already in the lyrics Edda Volundarkvidha, attributable to VI in then Vilkinasage and Nifdungasage appears tale of clever arrow Eygile. At the request of the Swedish king Nidunga (ie, jealousy), Eygil throws an arrow an apple placed on the head with his three sons, and said to the king, the other two arrows would pierce it if baby (Opvandil = Pfeilwindeg, Pfeilarbeiter) was killed. It is believed that the saga of Eygile originated in planting. Germany, infiltrated the Scandinavian semi-in and from there returned to Germany in the Scandinavian processing. The Legend of skillful needle repeatedly found in Norwegian history. For example, St. Olaf (d. 1030) compelling to such a dangerous shooting brave warrior Eyndridi. King Harald Sigurdson (died 1066) makes the hero Göming shoot nut placed on the head with his brother. At Farosskih Islands recorded a story about how Gate, son Aslaka, at the request of King knocked down arrow to the head brother hazelnut. The Legend of skillful needle found in the Danish writer XII century. Saxo Grammaticus (d. 1203), in the tenth book of his "Historia Danica", in the form: King Harald Sinezubogo, who lived at X. in. was in the service of a skilled shooter currents. He boasted in a drunken state, that'll throw the boom is the smallest apples at the top pole. Violent Harald ordered to instead of six young son currents. Toki took a bow, three arrows one arrow he shot down an apple on his son's head, while the other two mean, if his son would be killed, for Harold, as he admitted afterwards currents. Toki, as tall, fled from persecution and subsequently killed Harold with an arrow during the battle Harold. with the rebels against his son. As in Switzerland, Gesler, and in Denmark, Harald raise their brutal insurrection, and fall from the hands of a cunning hand. The famous Swiss legend of William T. consists of the following reasons: severe Viceroy Emperor Germanic Switzerland, Vogt Gesler, hung on the area of the mountains. Altdorf on the pole hat Austrian duke, and ordered that every passing bowed hat. A young peasant, T., known as an excellent shooter, has not executed this order, and Gesler awarded him for this shoot an apple, posited pa mind his own son. T. happily performed the task, but then he admitted that if it got into his son, then another boom would have killed Geslera. He was sent to prison, but he fled into the mountains, Geslera waylaid on the road between the rocks and killed him with an arrow. Chronologically, the event is in conjunction with the 1307 addition to the Germanic and Nordic legends on the skillful needle can be placed Finnish "Memoirs of a national hero" differs marksmanship in Estonia and Finland, dated to many local names, and this hero is named or T. Tolia. Esta, Karelians and Finns indicate stone T. tomb T., its castle ruins. Finnish legends can be made contingent on the Scandinavian, but followed by other foreign tales of this type, the origin of which seems puzzling. There are many tales about clever arrow peoples inhabiting Hungary, Transylvania and Bucovina. Legend of the same type with a story about TV is found in "Mantik at tair" (Language of Birds) Persian writer of the first half of the XII century., Ferid Eddin-Attar. Here, the king throws an arrow an apple from the head of his favorite page, which died of fright while not influenced by the boom. This option may include an ancient legend of Cambyses, transmitted by Herodotus: Cambyses shoots son court Preksaspesa and struck his heart. Even more interesting classic tale of the Cretan ALCOP, having lost the head of his son, the snake, not hooking son. Slav world is not alien tale of skillful needle type T. In Bulgarian legend hero bears the name of the main hero modern Greek heroic epic Digenis. Serbian legends included in the song about marriage Dusan (at Buka Karadzic v. II, ed. 1875, p. 132-154) and a song about marriage Twrch Smederevtsa (ib. 469-479). In Ukraine became a legend in the family history Khanenko: Danilo Khanenko shot down by a bullet headpiece beautiful Cossack girl and married her.Tales of Clever wise they contain apparently koekakie mythological features, for which reason the German scientist, especially Rohgoltsu, find their main source of mythology – in other words, to see them one of the innumerable allegorical expressions of the struggle of winter to summer, with the final victory of the latter. Rohgolts epigraph to the first chapter of his study VT, entitled "Die Naturmythe und die historisch gewordene Sage", chose the words of the writer in the XIV. Conrad von Amengauzena: "ich will dir goute maere sagen, bin sont wir den winter jagen", ie "I'll tell you a good story, as we drove out the winter. As to the mythological features point to an unusual shooting accuracy, the apple – as a symbol of the sun on the boom – as an ordinary character sunlight and lightning. It contains such parallels, as Hindu legend about a clever shooting Indra striking Vritra, Greek legend about the devastating arrows of Apollo, the Scandinavian legends about armed with arrows sun gods Ulrich Genire, Geymdale. In favor of the mythological character of the plot says Serbian song about marriage Dusan, where the hero Midosh Voinovich stands in the delineation of solar hero.