English Translation

I1a Far, far to the north is the land of their forefathers. They are among the most advanced posts of the plant world against the eternal ice. When snow and ice melt there in the far north at the time of the midnight sun and release the earth under them for a few weeks, then grow and bloom here in all the tumults the woolen grasses and bear fruit. Once upon a time - at that time, at the time of which the woolgrass mothers tell of, the few summer weeks high in the north were shortened even further. More and more they shrunk together. Finally, the ice-free time of the year was so short that hardly any woolgrass could send out more ripe seeds into the country. It became increasingly difficult to ensure the survival of the species. It was almost impossible to pass on the father's inheritance to distant sexes. Then centuries and millennia came, in which the ice melted no longer at all. Rather, the ice cover became thicker and more powerful from year to year. All the life of this area was destroyed, frozen. Only the small snow algae covered here and there often wide areas with the red of their countless bodies. But before the icy death of the area in which the northern woolen grasses lived, some of them had managed to send out with their last forces several seeds even in the strongly shortened summers, with the task of searching for ice-free land and germinate and grow there and to bear witness to new generations. All those seeds, which were relegated further north, perished in the millennial ice like their ancestors. But these were the few. Because then icy north-east wind blew, and this contributed the seeds southward, ice-free earth. Some seeds found brown soil, germinate and grow and bear fruit. But the ice also continued southward, shortened the summers there, and eventually covered this land for many millennia. Thus, the same thing happened long before further north: wool grasses fought with the last force for the fort. — — — And they won. — The individual plants died, but the species lived further south through their seeds anew. Thus the wool grasses came to our fatherland. But also here they were driven out of the northern part again, had to continue to migrate to central Germany. In all the countries that passed through the woolgrasses there was much misery and great need. Plants that could tolerate less cold than the wool grasses and therefore had originally taken a foot further south had also fled from the ice in the same way as the woolgrass: the new Saen had to germinate further and further south. 26