List of Swiss People - Legendary and Folk Heroes

Legendary and Folk Heroes

  • Helvetia, personification ("mother") of Switzerland
  • Arnold von Melchtal, legendary founding father of Switzerland
  • Ueli Rotach, legendary hero of the 1405 battle at Stoss
  • William Tell, legendary 14th century hero
  • Arnold von Winkelried, legendary hero of the 1386 battle of Sempach

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    “By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
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    ““I have usually found that there was method in his madness.”
    “Some folk might say there was madness in his method.””
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    “We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the help of other men—we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.”
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