But to ensure that neither one nor the other happens, such a mountain father also has an immense number of children at his side, who eagerly take on the excess burden of their father; and what becomes too much for themselves, again a whole lot of grandchildren squatting around them, which eagerly take on the over-abundance. And what becomes too much for them as well, they then bless the whole expanse of the lowland. – The Grossglockner, Chapter 1, Paragraph 32