It is stifi called Boli ta s Path. It is supposed, that the early inhabitants of the Swiss mountains, when driven back by later tribes of immigrants, retired to the high lands and took refuge in the clefts and caverns of the mountains, whence they gradually showed themselves to the new settlers approached them, assisted them, and were finally, as a species of Genii, raised to the region of the wonderful. For our knowledge of the Dwarf Mythology of Switzerland, we are chiefly indebted to professor Wyss, of Bern, who has put some of the legends in a poetical dress, and given others in the notes to his Idylls as he styles them. He adds, that the belief in these beings is strong in the minds of the people, not merely in the mountain districts, but also at the foot of Belp mountain, Belp, Gelterfingen, and other places about Bern. H rdm ndlene.
Servants is the term in the original.
This Scottish word, signifying the summer cabin of the herdsmen on the mountains, exactly expresses the Seunh tten of the Swiss. Alpenrosen for 1824, ap . Rud Wyss, Prof. Bern, 1813. We give below those in which there is anything peculiar. The original is in German hexameters.