Some of the less-known Carinthian manuscripts written in the period from 1760 to 1860 (a total of 710 songs) are preserved in the Bohorič alphabet. The majority of the songs (almost half of the reviewed material, 304 of the 710 songs) have four-line or eight-line verses, 10% of them have seven or six line verses, and some verses have more than 10 lines. Approximately 15% consist of four lines, whereby the "Slovene Alpine" four syllabic poem and the dactylic ten syllables seem to be much older than hitherto assumed.
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