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    Rütli Oath (redirect from Rütlischwur)
    The Rütli Oath (German: Rütlischwur, German pronunciation: [ˈryːtliˌʃvuːr]) is the legendary oath taken at the foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy...
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    been mostly associated with the Bund of Brunnen of 1315, or with the Rütlischwur, dated to 1307 by Aegidius Tschudi. The Federal Charter of 1291 first...
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    secretary (Landschreiber) Obwalden. It mentions the Rütli oath (German: Rütlischwur) and names Tell as one of the conspirators of the Rütli, whose heroic...
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  • independence of Switzerland. According to Tschudi he represented Uri at the Rütlischwur. Werner Stauffacher Arnold von Melchtal Stadler, Hans, "Fürst, Walter"...
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    Swiss Confederacy. The foundation of the Confederacy is marked by the Rütlischwur (dated to 1307 by Aegidius Tschudi) or the 1315 Pact of Brunnen. Since...
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    late medieval period, most notably in Swiss historiography being the Rütlischwur between the three founding cantons Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, traditionally...
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    William Tell (1960) Crossbow (1987–90) The Legend of William Tell (1998) William Tell (TBA) Other Rütlischwur Shooting an apple off one's child's head...
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    said to symbolise the Holy Trinity. Depictions of the Rütli Oath or Rütlischwur, the legendary founding oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy in the 13th...
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    along three axes, a gesture that symbolizes the Holy Trinity and the Rütlischwur, and swears the oath in his native tongue. This may be any of the four...
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    Seelisberg municipality of the Swiss canton of Uri. It is the site of the Rütlischwur in traditional Swiss historiography, the oath marking the foundation...
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