This article deals with early Slovene poetry and its relation to the mountains. Zois and Vodnik already felt the national and poetic potential of Mount Triglav, as well as Lake Bohinj and the Savica waterfall. Their ideas found an echo in Slovene poetry of the pre1848 period, but it was France Prešeren who added a historical-mythological layer to them in his Krst pri Savici (Baptism by the Savica, 1836). A short survey reveals that Slovene poetry from Vodnik to Gregorčič visibly contributed to making the mountains a mythical national place.
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