_William Tell Legend._--Could any of your readers tell me the true origin
of the William Tell apple story? I find the same story told of--
(1.) Egil, the father of the famous smith Wayland, who was instructed in
the art of forging metals by two dwarfs of the mountain of Kallova.
(Depping, _Mem. de la Societe des Antiquaires de France_, tom. v. pp. 223.
229.)
(2.) Saxo Grammaticus, who wrote nearly a century before Tell, tells nearly
the same story of one Toko, who killed Harold.
(3.) "There was a souldier called Pumher, who, daily through witchcraft,
killed three of his enemies. This was he who shot at a pennie on his son's
head, and made ready another arrow to have slain the Duke Remgrave (?
Rheingraf), who commanded it." (Reginald Scot, 1584.)
(4.) And Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudeslie.