"Forced drudgery!" "Fruitless toil!" "The best sword that ever I forged would hold firm in a giant's fists" "But the contemptuous boy snaps it as if I'd made a toy!" "One sword he could not shatter" "With Notung's fragments he could not taunt me   if I could weld the splinters" "If I forged it for the fearless one, I'd be requited for my shame!" "Fafner, the fearsome dragon   lurks in the dark forest" "With the weight of his body   he guards the Nibelung's gold" "Siegfried's youthful strength might well destroy Fafner" "He would win for me the Nibelung's ring" "One sword only will suffice" "Only Notung can serve my envy if swaggering Siegfried wields it" "But I can't weld that sword!" "Forced drudgery!" "Fruitless toil!" "The best sword that ever I forged will never do for the deed!" "I go on because the boy insists" "He snaps it in two and reviles me if I don't labour for him" "Go for him!" "Gobble him up, ugly old smith!" "Get that beast out!" " Why a bear?" " The better to tease you" "Bruin, ask for the sword!" "Send him off!" "There lies the sword" "Then today you escape" "On your way, Bruin!" "I am glad when you slay bears." "But why bring a live beast home?" "I was looking for a better companion than the one at home ln the depths of the forest I set my horn waking the echo" "With my music I asked: would a good friend gladden me?" "Out of the bushes came a bear" "I preferred him to you, though I'd still like a better!" "With a rope I brought him to ask for the sword I made the weapon sharp." "Its edge will delight you" "What use is its edge if the steel is not firm?" "Hey, what worthless toy is this!" "Do you call this pin a sword?" "There are the bits I should have broken them over your head!" "Shall this braggart dupe me further?" "He babbles of giants and of daring deeds" "He wants to make weapons and praises his skill" "Yet when I take one in my hand   I shatter the trash!" "If the wretch were not vile   I'd melt him with his sword, the stupid old oaf!" "I'd have an end to my annoyance!" "Now you rave again as if mad." "Gross indeed is your ingratitude!" "If I give the boy anything but the best   he forgets the good I've done!" "Will you never think of what I taught you about thanks?" "You should obey the one who has always wished you well" "You don't want to hear that again!" "But surely you'd like some food?" "I'll bring some roast meat" "Or would you like broth?" "I boiled it well for you" "Meat I've roasted for myself." "Swallow your swill alone!" "So that's how my love is requited!" "That's the repayment for my pains!" "I brought you up, a puling babe l gave the little mite warm clothes I brought you food and drink, cherished you like my own flesh" "As you grew I guarded you I made you a couch on which to sleep I made you toys and a resounding horn I toiled to give you pleasure" "With counsel I schooled your wisdom" "With knowledge I whetted your wits I sit at home toiling while you roam around" "For you alone in pain I pine away, a poor old dwarf!" "For my worry this is my reward" "The boy harasses and hates me!" "Much you've taught me, Mime, and much I've learned from you" "But what you most sought to teach me   I never succeeded in learning   how to tolerate you!" "Though you bring me food, loathing alone feeds me" "Though you make me a couch, slumber is hard to come by" "Though you teach me to use my wits I'd rather stay deaf and dull" "As soon as I set eyes on you, I see that all you do is evil" "When I watch you   shuffling and shambling, stooping and squinting   I long to seize your neck and end your blinking!" "That's how I learned to endure you lf you're so wise, help me to know something I've pondered in vain I run into the forest to escape you" "Why do I always return?" "Every beast is dearer than you" "The trees and birds, the fish are more welcome to me" "Why do I return?" "If you're clever, tell me that" "My child, that teaches you how dear I am to your heart I can't abide you!" "Your wildness is to blame, which you should curb" "The young yearn and pine for their parents' nest" "This longing is called love" "Thus you too long for me" "Thus you too love your Mime!" "You must love him!" "What bird is to fledgling when it feeds it in the nest   before it can fly   such to you, my lad, is sage, attentive Mime!" "Such he must be!" "Oh, Mime, if you're so wise explain something else to me" "The birds sang happily in Spring" "Each attracted the other" "You said when I asked   that they were husband and wife" "They dallied so lovingly and never left each other" "They built a nest and hatched their brood" "The fledglings fluttered out   and both cherished the chicks" "Roe deer also paired off, and so did foxes and wolves" "The father brought food to the nest" "The mother suckled the whelps" "There I learned what love was I never took cubs from the mother" "Where have you your loving wife   that I may call her mother?" "What's wrong with you, fool?" "Are you a bird or a fox?" "You brought up the puling babe, gave the little mite warm clothes" "But how came the tot to you?" "Did you make me without a mother?" "You must believe I am both your father and your mother" "You lie, loathsome loon!" "The young look like their parents." "I've seen it for myself" "When I came to the brook   I saw the trees and beasts mirrored there" "Sun and clouds, just as they are   appeared in the stream" "There too I saw my own picture" "Quite unlike you I seemed, as like as a toad and a fish" "But fish never had toad for father" "You're prating rubbish!" "Look, it becomes clear to me what I've long pondered in vain" "When I run to escape you   how is it I return?" "From you I must first discover who my father and mother are?" "What father?" "What mother?" "Then I must seize you like this!" "By gentleness I learn nothing!" "I'd scarcely have learnt speech had I not wrung it from you!" "Out with it, scoundrel!" " Who are my father and mother?" " You've almost killed me!" "Then learn what you want to know as I know it!" "Ungrateful, cruel boy!" "Now hear why you hate me!" "I am not your father nor of your family yet you owe me everything" "You are a stranger to me." "Out of compassion I sheltered you" "Fool I was to hope for thanks!" "One day a woman lay whimpering out there in the wild woods" "I helped her into the cave   to tend her by my fire" "In her womb she carried a child" "Wretchedly she here gave it birth" "Back and forth she writhed." "I helped as best I could" "Great was her distress" "She died" "But Siegfried, he survived" "Then my mother died of me?" "She gave you into my keeping" "Gladly I cared for the child" "What trouble Mime took" " As a puling babe l brought you up" " You've said that before" "Now, why am I called Siegfried?" "Your mother commanded me so to call you" "As Siegfried you would be strong and handsome I gave the little mite warm clothes" "Now, what was my mother's name?" "Truly, I scarcely know." "I brought you food and drink" "Her name!" "You shall tell me!" "Has it slipped my mind?" "No wait!" "She may have been called Sieglinde I cherished you like my own flesh" "Now, what was my father called?" "I never saw him" "But my mother mentioned his name?" "She said that he was killed" "To my care she entrusted her child" "As you grew I guarded you well l made you a couch on which to sleep" "Stop that endless squawking!" "If I must believe this story, then let me see some proof" "What would convince you?" "My ears do not believe you." "I'll credit only my eyes" "What proof supports your story?" "Your mother gave me this" "For my pains and attention   she left this as paltry payment" "Look here, a shattered sword!" "She said your father carried it when he fell in his last fight" "And these fragments you must forge for me" "Then my rightful sword I'll brandish!" "Get up, Mime!" "Get on with it!" "Now show your skill if you can!" "Don't trick me with trashy toys" "Only in these fragments have I faith lf you join them badly, if you patch the steel poorly   I'll have your cowardly hide, I'll teach you what a drubbing is!" "For this very day, I swear   I must have that sword!" "What do you want with it today?" "To go from the forest into the world, never to return!" "How glad I am to be free." "Nothing constrains me!" "You are not my father." "Far away I shall be at home" "Your hearth is not my house, my shelter not your roof" "Happy as the fish in floodtide, free as the finch flying off   I flee from here, wending, like the wind over the woods   never to see you again!" "Stop!" "Where are you going, Siegfried?" "Away he storms!" "And I sit here!" "To my old troubles   is added a new one" "Now I am at my wits' end" "How can I help myself?" "How can I hold him here?" "How shall I lead him   to Fafner's lair?" "How shall I join the splinters of this stubborn steel?" "No fire can fuse   these pure pieces" "No hammer can subdue their hardness" "Nibelung hatred   trouble and toil   will not knit Notung for me!" "Greeting, wise smith!" "To a way-worn guest   grant the hospitality of your house and hearth" "Who seeks me out in this wood?" "Who trailed me through the forest?" "The world calls me Wanderer" "Widely have I wandered   far over the earth's face" "Then be on your way and do not dally here" "Good men have granted me haven" "Many have greeted me with gifts" "Only misanthropes fear misfortune" "Misfortune is my companion." "Do you wish to bring more?" "Much I've explored, and much I've learned   and from many fended off doubts   that gnawed their hearts" "Though you spied out much, here I need no scouts nor spies I want to be alone. I let loiterers go their way" "Many imagined they were wise   but knew not what they needed" "I let them ask for guidance   and gave my counsel as guerdon" "Many store useless knowledge" "For my needs I know enough" "Let me direct the sage on his way!" "Here I sit   and stake my head   as pledge in a war of wits" "My head is yours   if you do not hear what will help you   if I do not redeem it with my precepts" "How can I rid me of this spy?" "I must ask artful questions" "I will hold your head against my hospitality" "Now redeem it with your wisdom!" "Three questions I shall freely ask" "Thrice then must I answer" "Far over the earth's face   have you wandered" "Then say   which race dwells in the earth's depths?" "In the earth's depths dwell the Nibelungs" "Nibelheim is their land" "They are imps of darkness" "Alberich once ruled as their lord" "A magic ring subjugated   the slaving mass to him" "A hoard of treasure   which they heaped up, should have won him the world" "What is your second question?" "Much, Wanderer, have you told me of the earth's dark kernel" "Now answer me   which race dwells on the earth's face?" "On the earth's face flourishes the race of giants" "Riesenheim is their land" "Fasolt and Fafner, chiefs of these ruffians   envied the Nibelung's power" "They won the treasure hoard   and with it gained the ring" "About it strife flared up between the brothers" "Fasolt was slain" "As a dragon Fafner now guards the gold" "Now the third question" "Much, Wanderer, have you told me of the surface of the earth" "Now tell me   which race lives in the cloudy heights?" "In the cloudy heights   live the gods" "Valhalla is their dwelling" "They are the spirits of light" "Wotan rules over them" "From the primeval ash   he cut a shaft" "Though the trunk wither, never shall the spear decay" "With it Wotan governs the world" "Treaties with symbols of trust he carved in its shaft" "Custody of the world lies   in the spear of Wotan's fist" "Before him bowed the Nibelung" "His commands quelled the giants" "They all forever obey   the lord of the spear" "Now tell me, discerning dwarf   did I know the answers?" "Am I free to keep my head?" "You have solved the questions and redeemed your head" "Now, Wanderer, go on your way!" "You should have asked me   what you needed to know" "My head stood surety for my answers" "As you do not know what you need   I claim yours as pledge" "You did not greet me as a guest" "I gave my head into your hands   so as to enjoy your hospitality" "Yours now is forfeit   if you do not solve three questions" "So, Mime, sharpen your wits!" "Long ago I left my native land" "Long ago I emerged from the womb" "Wotan's eyes fell on me   and peered into my cave" "Before him my wit melts away" "But now I must show myself wise" "Wanderer, ask on!" "Perhaps I'll be lucky enough to save my dwarf's head" "Now, worthy dwarf   tell me first   which is the race   that Wotan oppressed   yet whose life is dearest to him?" "Little have I heard of heroes' kin   yet I can answer your question" "The Walsungs are the children   that Wotan fathered and cherished   but also chastised" "Siegmund and Sieglinde were sired by Walse   wild and desperate twins" "From them sprang Siegfried   strongest scion of the Walsungs" "Did I keep my head?" "Rightly you name the race" "You seem astute, scoundrel!" "You are free of the first question" "Now for the second" "A wise Nibelung watches over Siegfried   who must slay Fafner for him   so that he may gain the ring   and master the treasure" "What sword must Siegfried flourish   fit for Fafner's death?" "Notung is the trusty sword" "Wotan thrust it into an ash tree lt would befit whoever could draw it forth" "None of the heroes could succeed." "Only Siegmund was victorious" "He bore it into battle, till it snapped on Wotan's spear" "Now a smith keeps the pieces" "He knows that only with Wotan's sword   will a brave but stupid boy, Siegfried, slay the dragon" "Do I keep my head?" "You are the wittiest of wise men." "Who could equal your cleverness?" "But if you are so crafty as to exploit the young hero   let me threaten you with the third question!" "Tell me, wily smith   who will weld the splinters of the sword Notung?" "My head swims!" "What can I say?" "Accursed steel, would I had not stolen it!" "It has nailed me down in misery!" "Rivets and solder are of no avail!" "The sagest smith knows of no way!" "Who shall shape the sword if my skill is insufficient?" "How can I work this miracle?" "Three questions you had to set" "Three times I replied correctly" "You asked about remote things" "But what lay closest   did not occur to you" "Now when I guess it   you go insane" "I have won your wily head!" "Now, Fafner's conqueror   listen, ruined dwarf!" "Only one who has never felt fear   shall forge Notung anew" "From today ward your head well" "I leave it forfeit to him   who has never learnt fear!" "Loathsome light!" "is the air aflame?" "What is flashing   glittering and whirring   swirling around?" "It gleams in the sunlight" "What is rustling there?" "It rumbles and roars   and rushes this way!" "It's making for me through the wood" "A monstrous maw gapes for me" "The dragon is after me!" "Fafner!" "Hey, idler!" "Are you ready yet?" "How goes it with the sword?" "Where has the smith got to?" "Mime, you coward!" "Where are you?" "is that you, lad?" "Are you alone?" "Behind the anvil?" "Are you sharpening the sword?" "The sword?" "How can I weld it?" ""Only one who has never felt fear ..." ""... shall forge Notung anew"" "I knew too much for such work!" "Will you tell me?" "Or must I help?" "Where can I turn for help?" "I have wagered away my head" "I forfeited it to him "who has never learnt fear"" "Are you trying to escape me?" "I would gladly flee one who knows what fear is" "That I failed to teach the boy!" "I forgot the one good thing" "He should have learnt to love me" "But alas, that went wrong!" "How can I instil fear into him?" "Well, must I help?" "What have you done today?" "I was sunk in thoughts of how to teach you   something important" "You had sunk under the seat." "What did you find there?" "I learned what fear was   that I might teach it to you" " What is this about fear?" " Have you never known it?" "Yet you seek to set forth into the world" "What use is the stoutest sword if fear remains foreign to you?" "Are you inventing idle advice?" "I repeat your mother's advice I must do what I promised   not to let you go until you had learnt fear" "If it's a craft why don't I know it?" "What is this about fear?" "Have you never felt in the gloomy forest   when twilight falls in some dark spot   when from afar there's a rustling   a rumbling, roaring nearer   confused flames   whirling and swirling towards you ..." "... did you not feel a grim horror grip your limbs   scorching shudders shake you   your heart hammering to burst in your breast?" "If you've not yet felt that   fear is still a stranger!" "Very peculiar that must be!" "Firm and strong is my heart" "This shivering and shuddering   scorching and searing   swooning, hammering and beating   I'd like to feel this" "I long for this pleasure!" "But how can you bring it me?" "How could you teach me?" "Just follow me. I'll guide you" "I found out while thinking" "I know an evil dragon which has devoured many men" "Fafner will teach you fear   if you follow me to his lair" "Where lies his lair?" "Neidhohle, it is named   east, on the forest's fringe" "Then not far from the world?" "It is quite near" "Then you must guide me there I'll learn fear and be off into the world!" "Quickly!" "Make the sword. I mean to wield it in the world" "The sword?" "Alas!" "Quickly into the smithy" "Accursed steel!" "I don't know how to mend it" "No craft can quell its spell" "One who knows no fear might acquire the art more easily" "This idler fills me with fibs" "He should confess he's a bungler" "He lies and cheats his way out!" "Bring the pieces here, and be off!" "My father's blade befits me well" "I'll forge the sword myself!" "Had you acquired the craft, you might have managed it" "But you were always lazy" "How will you do it aright?" "Can pupil do what master cannot, even if attentive?" "Now go away and don't interfere   or you'll be in the fire too!" "What are you doing?" "Take the solder I've been preparing" "Take that mush away!" "I can't fire a sword with pulp!" "You're filing the file smooth, ruining the rasp" "You'll splinter the steel I must see it split into shreds." "What's broken I will mend" "No expert can help here, I see" "Only his folly helps the fool!" "How hard he works!" "The steel is in shreds yet he's at ease" "I'm as old as the woods, but never have I seen the like before!" "He's succeeding, I can see" "He's fearlessly forging it anew" "The Wanderer knew it well" "How can I hide my head?" "It will fall to the boy if Fafner does not teach him fear!" "Woe is me!" "If he learns fear from the dragon, how can he gain me the ring?" "Damned dilemma!" "I'm fixed if I don't find a way   to better this fearless lad" "What is this sword called that I've split into splinters?" "Notung is the name of the sword" "Your mother told me so" "Notung, trusty sword!" "Why did you have to break?" "Now I've shredded your sharpness ln the crucible i cook the splinters" "Blow, bellows!" "Blow on the blaze!" "Wild grew a tree   that I felled in the forest" "I burned the ash tree to charcoal   that now is heaped on the hearth" "How bravely burns the charcoal from the tree" "How bright and brilliant it glows!" "It spits out showers of sparks" "It smelts the splinters of my steel" "He'll forge the sword and slay Fafner I can see that clearly" "The treasure and the ring will fall to him" "How can I retrieve his gains?" "By cunning I'll procure both and keep my head unharmed" "When he is weary from the dragon   a drink will refresh him" "From juices I have gathered I will brew a draught for him" "He needs but a few drops   and he will sink into sleep" "With the sword he won   I will remove him and win the ring and treasure for myself" "Notung, trusty sword!" " The splinters of steel are molten" " Well, wise Wanderer   do you still deem me dull?" "You swim in your own sweat" "How do you like my subtle wit?" "Have I found a way to peace?" "Soon I will swing you as my sword!" "into the water flowed a fiery flood ln fury it hissed" "Searingly as it flowed in the water, it flows no more" "Firm and masterful is the steel" "Soon it will draw hot blood!" "Now sweat once more   so that I can weld you" "What is he doing with that pot?" "While I'm melting steel, are you cooking stew?" "A smith has been put to shame." "A pupil teaches his master" "The old man is done with his craft, and serves the boy as cook" "While he brews broth from metal   the old man boils soup from these eggs" "The craftsman is learning cooking" "He's lost his taste for forging I have smashed all his swords." "I won't touch what he cooks" "He wants to lead me to fear" "A stranger must teach me" "The best Mime can do brings nothing home to me" "He succeeds in botching everything!" "Hammer, shape me a sturdy sword!" "Your blue blade once ran red   and blushed with trickling gore" "Coldly you laughed and licked the hot blood cool!" "Now you are flushed with the fire" "Your hardness yields to my hammer" "Angrily you shower sparks on me because I tamed your obstinacy!" "He's shaping himself a sword   to slay Fafner, the dwarf's foe" "I've brewed a draught to trap Siegfried when Fafner falls" "My cunning must succeed!" "My reward must smile on me!" "Hammer, shape me a sword!" "I rejoice to see those joyous sparks" "The force of fury befits the brave" "Gaily you laugh to me though you look grim" "With fire and hammer l've done well" "With blows I've beaten you straight" "Now let your shame shrink away." "Be as cold and hard as you can" "The ring my brother wrought, on which he laid a spell   the shining gold that makes one master, I have won!" "Alberich, who thrust me in thrall, I now can compel to drudgery I shall go there again as lord of the Nibelungs" "The despised dwarf will be revered!" "To my hoard will come god and hero" "At my nod the world will kneel!" "At my wrath it will tremble!" "Notung, trusty sword!" "Now you are fixed in the hilt" "My toll is over!" "You were broken. I made you whole" "No stroke shall shatter you again" "Others will make wealth for him" "The steel snapped for my dying father" "His living son fashioned it anew" "Now its lustre smiles at him." "Its edge cuts keenly" "Mime the bold, Mime is king, ruler of all!" "Notung, trusty sword!" "I've wakened you to life again!" "You lay dead in fragments." "Now you gleam glorious and defiant" "Lucky Mime!" "Now show felons how you shine!" "See, Mime   how sharp is Siegfried's sword!" "In the forest at night   I watch over Neidhohle" "I strain my ears." "My eyes peer hard" "Timid day, are you stirring?" "Are you dawning there?" "What gleam of light is that?" "Nearer glows a bright ray   racing like a shining horse breaking through the wood" "is the dragon's destroyer at hand?" "is it he who is to slay Fafner?" "The light fades" "The glow disappears" "Night has returned" "Who comes there shining in the shadows?" "To Neidhohle I come by night" "Whom do I descry in the darkness?" "You dare to show yourself here?" "What do you want?" "Begone, out of my path, you shameless thief!" "Alberich, are you lurking here?" "Are you guarding Fafner's lair?" "Are you searching for mischief?" "Do not loiter here!" "Enough fraud has soaked our soil in distress" "So leave us now in peace!" "I came to watch   not to act" "Who would bar my path?" "You who suggest shifty schemes!" "Were I to oblige you by being as stupid   as when you caught me   how easy it would be to rob me of the ring again!" "Beware!" "I know your wiles" "But where you are weak, of that too I am well aware" "With my treasure you paid your debts" "My ring recompensed the giants for their toil   in building your castle" "What you promised them   still remains inscribed on the shaft of your spear" "You dare not snatch back from the giants   what you paid them" "You would shatter your spear ln your hands the stout staff would crumble to dust!" "No written treaty of trust   bound you, villain, to me" "My spear subjugated you I ward it well for war" "How boldly you threaten!" "Yet how fearful you are at heart!" "Doomed to death by my curse is he who guards the treasure" "Who shall inherit it?" "Will the envied treasure again belong to the Nibelung?" "That consumes you with concern!" "For if I grasp it again   unlike the stupid giants   I will use the power of the ring" "Then tremble, guardian of heroes!" "I will storm Valhalla's heights with Hella's hosts" "Then I shall rule the world!" "Your intent I know full well" "But it does not trouble me" "Let him who wins the ring   be its master" "How darkly you speak   of what I clearly know!" "Your defiance depends on heroes' sons   dearly descended from your own blood" "Have you not reared a boy   who will pluck the fruit   that you dare not touch?" "Do not quarrel with me   but with Mime" "Your brother brings you danger" "He is leading here a lad who must kill Fafner for him" "He knows nothing of me" "The Nibelung is using him for his own ends" "So I say, friend   do exactly as it suits you!" "Heed my words." "Be on guard!" "The boy knows nothing of the ring" "But Mime will tell him" "Will you keep your hands off the hoard?" "Whom I love, I leave to fend for himself" "He stands or falls, but is his own master" "I avail myself only of heroes" "Am I contending with Mime alone for the ring?" "Besides you, only he covets the gold" "And yet I shall not gain it?" "A hero is approaching to rescue the treasure" "Two Nibelungs crave for the gold" "Fafner, who guards the ring, falls" "He who seizes it has won it" "Would you know more?" "There lies the dragon lf you warn him of death   perhaps he will give up his toy" "I will wake him for you" "Fafner, dragon, waken!" "What is the madman about?" "Would he really let me have it?" "Who disturbs me from my sleep?" "Someone has come to warn you of danger" "He will save your life   if you will repay him with the treasure that you guard" "What does he want?" "Waken, Fafner!" "Waken, dragon!" "A hero is approaching to pit himself against you" "I am hungry for him" "Bold is the boy's strength" "Sharply cuts his sword" "He hankers for the ring alone" "Give me the ring as reward   and I will prevent the fight" "You can watch over your hoard and live long in peace" "Here I lie and here I hold" "Let me sleep!" "Well, Alberich, that went astray" "But call me a rogue no more" "Pay heed to this counsel!" "Everything goes its own way" "You can alter nothing" "This spot I cede to you" "Take a strong stand." "Contend with Mime" "You may fare better with his kind" "More than that   you will soon learn too!" "Away he rides on his steed   leaving me to care and scorn" "Well, laugh then, you frivolous crew of gods!" "I shall see you all overthrown" "So long as the gold gleams   a knowing one keeps watch" "His tenacity will outwit you" "We've reached the spot." "Stop here!" "is it here I shall learn fear?" "You have led me far" "A whole night we have wandered in the woods" "Now, Mime, you must leave me to myself lf l do not learn here I'll go further alone" "At last I shall be free of you!" "Believe me, dear boy, if you do not learn fear here   you will scarcely find it elsewhere" "Do you see that dark cave-mouth?" "In it dwells a savage dragon" "He is enormously fierce and huge" "A hideous maw gapes open" "The brute may gobble you up, hair and hide lt would be good to close his gullet" "Then I won't be bitten" "A poisonous slaver pours from it lf you are splattered with it, your flesh and bones waste away" "So that his venom shan't harm me, I'll keep to the side" "A serpent's tail he twists about lf it grips you tight, your bones will break like glass" "To protect myself from the serpent's tail   I'll keep my eyes on the brute" "Tell me this!" " Has the dragon a heart?" " A ferocious, cruel heart ls it where it beats in everyone?" "The dragon's lies there too." "Now is fear coming on you?" "I'll thrust Notung into his heart!" "is that what's called fear?" "is that all you can teach me?" "Then be on your way" "Here I shan't learn fear" "Wait!" "You deem what I say empty" "You must see the dragon itself!" "Your senses will reel!" "When your sight blurs   and your heart quakes with fear in your breast" "... then you'll thank me   and remember how Mime loves you" "You're not to love me!" "Out of my sight!" "Leave me alone!" "I'll endure it no longer   if you start again about love!" "That nodding and blinking   when shall I see them no more?" "I'll lie down by the spring there." "You stay here" "When the sun is high, look out for the dragon lt will crawl from its cave   then turn by here   to drink at the stream" "If you wait at the spring   I'll let the dragon go there I'll thrust Notung into him   only after he's gulped you down too" "Take my advice" "Take yourself off as far as you can and never come near me again!" "After the fight   you would not forbid me to bring you refreshment?" "Call if you need advice   or if fear befalls you" "Siegfried and Fafner   if they'd only kill each other!" "He's not my father" "How glad I am of that!" "Now I can enjoy the cool woods" "At last daylight smiles on me now that he has left me   and I need never see him again" "What did my father look like?" "Ha!" "Like me, of course!" "For if Mime had a son wouldn't he be the image of Mime?" "As ugly, grizzled and grey   hunchbacked and hobbling   with droopy ears and bleary eyes" "Away with him. I never want to see him again" "But what did my mother look like?" "I can't imagine that at all" "Like the roe deer's surely shone   her soft lustrous eyes" "But far more lovely!" "When she bore me in sorrow   why did she die?" "Do all men's mothers die of their sons?" "That would be sad indeed!" "Ah, if I could see my mother   a mortal woman!" "I never heard you before" "Do you live in this forest?" "If I understood its song   it would surely say something   perhaps about my mother" "A testy dwarf told me that one could come to follow bird-talk" "How could that be possible?" "Ha!" "I'll try on a pipe to imitate its song!" "If I attend to its tune I'll be singing its language   and understand what it says" "It listens." "Then I'll tootle away!" "That doesn't sound right." "The song doesn't go on my pipe" "Little bird, I'm too stupid." "It's not easy to learn from you" "Now I'm quite shamed lt looks at me and hears nothing" "Hey!" "Now listen to my horn" "On that reed I could do nothing" "You shall have a woodland tune I can play a cheerful one" "With it I called for a comrade" "Nothing better has come   than wolf and bear" "Now let me see what it brings   perhaps a dear companion?" "My strains have roused something lovely!" "You'd make a pretty playmate!" "What's that there?" "If you know how to speak, perhaps I can learn from you?" "Here is one who does not know fear." "Can he come to know it from you?" "is this bravado?" "How do I know?" "But I'll stab you if you don't teach me fear" "I wanted a drink" "Now I've also found food!" "A delicious maw you display" "Teeth laughing in a dainty muzzle!" "I'd like to close your gullet." "Your jaws gape too wide!" "They are not suited to chatter" "But my throat is made to gulp you" "Ho ho!" "You gruesome knave!" "I've no desire to be digested" "But it seems right and proper that you should die the death" "Bah!" "Come on, braggart boy!" "On guard, growler!" "The braggart comes!" "Lie there, murderous beast" "You have Notung through your heart!" "Who are you, bold boy   that have pierced my heart?" "Who kindled your childish courage   to this deadly deed?" "Your brain did not conceive   what you have carried out" "There is much I still don't know, not even who I am" "You yourself goaded me to engage you in mortal combat" "You bright-eyed boy   who do not know yourself   I will tell you whom you have murdered" "Of the towering race of giants   Fasolt and Fafner, the brothers   both now are dead" "For the accursed gold gained from the gods   I dealt death to Fasolt" "He who defended the hoard as a dragon   Fafner, last of the giants   has fallen to a fresh-faced hero" "Keep a sharp watch, jubilant boy" "He who prompted you in your blindness to this deed   is now plotting your death" "Mark how it will end!" "Heed my words!" "Then tell me where l came from ln your death you seem wise" "You will know from my name I am called Siegfried" "Siegfried!" "The dead can tell no tales" "Then lead me, my living sword!" "Its blood burns like fire!" "It seems almost as if the birds were speaking to me!" "Did the taste of blood affect me?" "That rare bird there   what says its song?" "The Nibelung's treasure now belongs to Siegfried!" "Now he will find the hoard in the cave!" "The Tarnhelm will help him perform wondrous deeds" "But the ring would make him ruler of the world!" "Thanks, bird, for your counsel!" "I'll gladly follow your call!" "Where are you slinking so slyly?" "Accursed brother, as if I need you!" "Villain, are you greedy for my gold?" "Get away!" "This spot is mine" "Perhaps I disturb your sly work?" "What I achieved shall not elude me" "Did you rob the Rhine of gold?" "Did you cast the spell on the ring?" "Who made the Tarnhelm?" "Did you devise it?" "What do you know of the black art?" "The ring put your skill at my service" "Where is the ring?" "The giants took it from you" "What you lost my guile will gain" "Would you cling to what the boy won?" "The lad is its lord!" "He can pay me now for rearing him." "I've waited long for my wages" "For rearing the boy does the slave claim to be king?" "More right has a dog than you" "Never shall you gain the ring" "Keep it!" "Guard it well!" "Be master, but call me brother!" "I'll trade it for my Tarnhelm." "We thus share the spoils" "Share with you?" "The Tarnhelm too?" "How sly are you!" "I'd never sleep safe" "Not share?" "Must I go empty-handed?" "Will you leave me nothing?" "Not a jot!" "Then I will not share with you!" "I will call Siegfried and his sword" "The boy will humble you, brother!" "Turn round!" "He is coming!" "He's chosen childish toys for sure" " He has the Tarnhelm!" " And the ring!" "The ring!" "Get him to give you the ring then!" "I'll soon win it for myself" "Yet it shall belong at last only to its master!" "What use you are I don't know I took you from the pile of gold   because I had good advice" "Let your beauty serve as witness" "The trinkets will be a reminder that I vanquished Fafner   though I still haven't learnt fear!" "Hey!" "The helmet and the ring belong to Siegfried!" "He must not trust treacherous Mime!" "Let Siegfried listen to the villain's lying words!" "He can now understand what Mime is thinking" "The taste of blood affected him so" "He is reckoning his prize's value" "Did a Wanderer beguile the boy   with crafty talk and tales?" "Doubly scheming must I be I'll set the subtlest snare   to fool the boy with friendly fraudulent words" "Welcome!" "Tell me   have you learnt fear?" "I've not yet found a teacher" "But didn't you kill the dreaded dragon?" "Wasn't it a fearful fellow?" "Grim and spiteful as it was, its death grieves me   since more evil villains still live unpunished!" "More than the dragon do I hate   the one who bade me kill it!" "Gently!" "You'll not see me much longer ln eternal sleep I'll soon close your eyes!" "What I desired of you, you have done" "Now all I need is to steal the spoils from you I think I can succeed in that" "You're very easy to deceive" "So you're planning to harm me?" "Why, did I say so?" "Siegfried!" "Hear me, my son!" "You and your kind   have I always hated in my heart" "From love I reared you   not, you nuisance" "The gold in Fafner's keeping   was what I toiled for" "If you don't give it to me gladly   Siegfried, my son, you can see for yourself   you must pay with your life!" "I rejoice to hear that you hate me" "But must I pay you with my life?" "That's not what I said!" "You mistake my words!" "You are tired from your efforts" "Your body must be burning ln trying to refresh you   I did not delay" "As you were melting your sword I was brewing this broth" "Drink it now   and I will win your sword, helmet and treasure" "So you would steal my sword and what it earned, ring and booty?" "Why must you mistake me?" "Do I stammer?" "I take the trouble to hide my thoughts   and you misunderstand me" "Open your ears!" "Hear what Mime means!" "Here, drink this draught!" "My drinks often refreshed you   when you were morose" "Whatever I brought   you always took" "I'll gladly take a good drink" "How has this been made?" "Just drink it." "Trust my skill!" "In murk and mist your senses soon will sink" "Your limbs will be stretched out" "As you lie there, I could take and hide the booty" "But if you woke up, I'd nowhere be safe, even with the ring" "With the sword you made sharp   I'll hack off the boy's head and have peace - and the ring!" "You want to slay me as I sleep?" "Want what?" "is that what I said?" "I only want   to hack off the boy's head" "Even if I didn't hate you so   and hadn't to avenge your jibes and the shame of my labour   I still would not delay   to despatch you from my path" "How else could I seize the spoil   since Alberich also is after it?" "Now my Walsung, wolf's son!" "Drink and choke yourself to death!" "You'll never taste another drop!" "Taste my sword, babbler!" "Notung has settled envy's wages" "For that I had to forge it" "Lie here in the cavern on the treasure!" "With plotting and perseverance you pursued it" "Now you can be lord of its lustre!" "A guardian I will also give you   to protect you from thieves" "Lie there, grisly dragon!" "Guard the treasure   together with your envious enemy" "May you both now find rest!" "I am hot from my task" "A fire races through my blood" "My hand on my head burns" "The sun is high." "From heaven it gazes steeply down on my head" "I'll seek shade under the lime tree" "Once more, little bird   since we disturbed you   I'd like to listen to your song" "On the branch I see you swaying" "Twittering and bustling, your brothers and sisters   surround you with love" "But I am so alone I have no brothers or sisters" "My mother is dead" "My father was slain" "Their son never saw them!" "My sole companion was a detestable dwarf" "Kindness never kindled into love" "Stealthily he set snares for me" "At last I was forced to kill him!" "Friendly bird, I ask you now   will you grant me a good companion?" "Will you advise me aright?" "Often have I sought   but never succeeded" "You will surely do better." "You've advised me so well already" "Now sing!" "I'm listening to you" "Hail!" "Siegfried has slain the wicked dwarf!" "Now I know a wife for him" "On a rocky height she is sleeping" "Fire surrounds the spot" "He who can break through   and wake the bride   Brunnhilde would be his!" "O lovely song!" "How its message burns my breast!" "How fiercely it inflames my heart!" "What shoots so swiftly through my senses?" "Tell me, sweet friend!" "Gaily in grief I sing of love" "From woe I weave my lay" "Only lovers know its meaning!" "It drives me forth rejoicing   out of the forest to the rocks" "Tell me, lovely singer   shall I break through the fire?" "Can I waken the bride?" "The bride can never be won   nor Brunnhilde awakened   by a coward" "Only by one who knows no fear!" "The stupid boy who knows not fear   little bird, that is I!" "This very day I vainly strove   to learn fear from Fafner" "Now I burn with longing   to learn it from Brunnhilde" "How can I find the way to the mountain?" "The way will be shown me, then" "Wherever you fly, I'll follow!" "Waken, Wala!" "From your long sleep I wake you, slumberer I summon you" "Arise!" "From your misty cave, from depths of darkness, arise!" "Erda!" "Eternal woman!" "From your hollow home   rise to the heights!" "I sing so that you will waken" "From brooding sleep   I rouse you" "Omniscient, immemorially wise!" "Erda!" "Eternal woman!" "Awake!" "Wala!" "Strong is the summons of your song   mighty the lure of its magic" "I have wakened   from the sleep of wisdom" "Who has dispelled my slumber?" "I am the awakener   and used spells   to rouse, from afar   what sleep held fast" "I have roamed the world   wandering widely   in quest of knowledge   to win world-old wisdom" "None is wiser than you" "To you is known what the depths hide   what links mountain and valley, air and water" "Wherever life exists your breath stirs" "Wherever brains brood   your mind is involved" "Everything, it is said   is known to you" "And so in quest of knowledge   I have woken you from sleep" "My sleep is dreaming   my dreaming is meditation" "My meditation   mastery of wisdom" "But while I sleep the Norns are awake" "They weave the rope   and spin what I know" "Why not ask the Norns?" "Subservient to the world spin the Norns" "Nothing can they alter or deflect" "But from your wisdom I would be glad to learn   how to hold back a rolling wheel" "My mind grows misty with the deeds of men" "Even I, with all my wisdom   once was overcome by a conqueror" "To Wotan I bore a wish-maiden" "Heroes from the battlefield he bade her bring him" "She is brave and also wise" "Why do you wake me   and not seek enlightenment from Erda's and Wotan's child?" "You mean the Valkyrie, the maid Brunnhilde?" "She flouted the father of storms   in his might" "What he longed to do but restrained himself against his will   the defiant girl dared to accomplish herself" "The father punished the maid ln her eyes he pressed slumber" "On the fell she is fast asleep" "The consecrated one will waken   only when a man woos her for his wife" "How would it help to question her?" "I am confused   since I awoke" "Wildly and awry   the world revolves!" "The Valkyrie, the Wala's child   suffered the fetters of sleep   while her omniscient mother slept?" "Does he who taught defiance punish defiance?" "is he who is responsible for the deed   wrathful when it is done?" "Does he who defends the right   and preserves vows   banish right   and rule by perjury?" "Let me descend again" "Let sleep seal up my wisdom!" "I will not let you go, mother   for magic lends me might" "Omniscient, you once thrust   the thorn of anxiety into Wotan's heart" "With fear of a shameful end   your knowledge filled him   so that fear fettered his spirit" "Since you are the world's wisest woman   tell me how the god can conquer his cares?" "You are not what you call yourself" "Wild and stubborn, why do you disturb the Wala's sleep?" "You are not what you believe" "The earth-mother's wisdom is drawing to an end" "Your wisdom will wither   before my will" "Do you know Wotan's will?" "To you, unwise one, I address these words   so that you may sleep carefree for ever" "Fear of the gods' downfall grieves me not   since I will it so!" "What once I resolved in despair   now I will freely perform" "Though in fury I flung   the world to the Nibelung's envy   now to the valiant Walsung   I leave my heritage" "He whom I chose, though he does not know me   the bravest of youths, whom I never advised   has gained the Nibelung's ring" "Rejoicing in love   innocent of envy   his ability will quell Alberich's curse   for fear remains foreign to him" "Brunnhilde, whom you bore me   will awaken to the hero" "The child of your wisdom   will do the deed that will redeem the world" "So now sleep on   close your eyes" "In dream behold my downfall!" "Whatever now befalls   to the ever-young   the god gladly yields" "Descend, Erda!" "Mother of fear   of timeless sorrow!" "Away to endless sleep!" "There I see Siegfried coming" "My bird has flown away!" "With flight and sweet song it pointed out my path" "Now it has vanished. I would do best to find the mountain for myself" "I'll continue further on the way my guide showed me" "Which way, youth, does your path lead?" "Someone spoke" "Perhaps he'll show me the way I seek a rock surrounded by fire" "There sleeps a woman I want to wake" "Who told you to seek the rock?" "Who made you yearn for the woman?" "A forest songbird told me lt gave me the good news" "A bird may chatter   but no one can understand it" "How could you make sense of it?" "That was the effect of a dragon's blood I killed it at Neidhohle" "Scarcely had it stung my tongue   than I understood bird-talk lf you slew this giant   who induced you to face the fearful dragon?" "Mime, a deceitful dwarf, led me" "He wished to teach me fear" "But the dragon incited the sword-stroke which slew it" "Who made the sword so solid   that it felled so strong a foe?" "I forged it myself" "Otherwise I'd still be swordless" "But who made the splinters   which you forged?" "How do I know?" "I only knew I had to forge the sword afresh" "I think so too!" "Why do you laugh at me?" "Old gossip, don't keep me longer chatting here!" "If you can show the way   say so. lf you can't   hold your tongue!" "Patience, my lad!" "If I seem old, you should show some respect" "That's not bad!" "All my life an old man stood in my way. I swept him aside lf you persist in obstructing me, watch you don't fare like Mime!" "Why do you wear so big a hat?" "Why does it hang over your face?" "That is the wanderer's way   when he walks against the wind" "But under it an eye is missing!" "Doubtless someone struck it out   whose way you barred" "Now be off or you might lose the other too" "I see, my son, you know nothing" "But you do know how to get your way" "With the eye which is missing   you are looking at the one   that remains to me for sight" "You make me laugh!" "But I can't chatter any longer." "Quick, show me the way" "Then be off on yours" "There's nothing else I need" "Speak, or I'll chase you!" "If you but knew me, insolent youth   you would spare me your insults!" "Your threats distress me, who am so close to you" "I have always loved your radiant race" "But my fury also gave you cause for fear" "You that I love, glorious hero   do not rouse my wrath today" "It would ruin both you and me!" "Do you stay dumb?" "Give ground, for that way, I know   leads to the sleeping woman" "So said my bird that flew away in haste lt flew to save itself!" "The lord of the ravens is here" "Woe to it if they catch it!" "You shall not take the way it showed!" "You forbid me!" "Who are you that seek to restrain me?" "Fear the guardian of the rock!" "My might encloses the sleeping maid" "He who wakes her, he who wins her   deprives me of my power!" "A sea of fire flows round the woman" "Glowing flames lick all round the rock" "He who yearns for her as bride   must front the fiery fury" "Look up to the heights!" "Do you see the light?" "The blaze is spreading." "The glow is growing ..." "Scorching smoke-clouds, flickering flames   billow down, burning and crackling" "A sea of light illuminates your head" "Soon the raging fire will consume you" "Go back, rash boy!" "Go back yourself, braggart!" "I must go to the heart of the blaze - to Brunnhilde lf you do not fear the fire   my spear must bar your way" "My hand still holds sovereignty" "The sword you bear   once shattered on this shaft." "Then let it break again   on the eternal spear!" "Have I found here my father's foe?" "How glorious that revenge is in my grasp!" "Flourish your spear!" "My sword will smash it to pieces!" "Forward then!" "I cannot stop you!" "With his spear in splinters, has the coward escaped me?" "Wondrous glow!" "Gleaming radiance!" "The road now lies shining and open to me I will bathe in the fire   in the fire find my bride!" "Now I can win a companion!" "Blessed solitude   on the sunny summit!" "What lies there asleep in the shadow of the pines?" "A steed, sunk deep in sleep!" "What is that shining in my face?" "A glittering suit of steel?" "Are my eyes still dazzled by the flames?" "Shining armour   shall I pick it up?" "Ah, there's a man in the armour!" "How delighted I am at the sight!" "Does the helmet constrict his head?" "It would be lighter if I loosened his gear" "Oh, how beautiful!" "Shimmering clouds cluster   in waves on the sea of heaven" "The face of the radiant sun   gleams through the clouds!" "His breast heaves as he breathes" "Shall I cut his breastplate?" "Come, sword, sever the iron!" "That's no man!" "A searing spell pierces my heart" "Fiery anxiety fills my eyes" "My senses swim and swoon!" "Whom can I call on to help me?" "Mother!" "Think of me!" "How shall I wake the maid so that she opens her eyes?" "But when she opens them   will the sight dazzle me?" "Am I bold enough to dare?" "Could I bear their brightness?" "All about me sways and staggers and reels!" "A painful yearning sears my senses" "My hand trembles on my beating heart!" "is this fear?" "O mother!" "This is your valiant child!" "A woman lies asleep   and she has taught him to be afraid" "How can I conquer this fear?" "How can I take courage?" "I must waken the maid so that I myself may awake!" "Sweetly quivers her rosy mouth" "How its soft trembling soothes my fear!" "Ah!" "The warm fragrance of her breath!" "Awaken!" "Wondrous woman!" "She does not hear me" "Then I will suck life from those sweet lips   though I die in doing so" "Hail to thee, sun!" "Hail to thee, light!" "Hail to thee, glorious day!" "Long have I slept I was awakened" "Who is the hero who woke me?" "I forced my way through the fire around the rock I loosened your helmet" "I am Siegfried, and I woke you" "Hail to thee, gods!" "Hail to thee, world!" "Hail to thee, resplendent earth!" "My sleep is at an end I am awakened and can see!" "It is Siegfried who has wakened me" "Hail to the mother that bore me!" "Hail to the earth that nourished me!" "That I can see those eyes   whose light now delights me!" "O Siegfried!" "Blessed hero!" "Waker to life" "Conquering light!" "If you but knew, joy of the world   how I have always loved you!" "You were my thought" "You were my care I fed your tender being before you were begotten" "Even before you were born my shield protected you" "So long have I loved you!" "Then my mother did not die?" "Was she I love only asleep?" "Dearest child!" "Your mother will not come back to you" "I am your very self   if you make me happy in your love" "What you do not know   I know for you" "Yet I have this knowledge only because I love you!" "Siegfried!" "Conquering light!" "I have always loved you" "For I alone divined Wotan's thought   the thought I dared not name   that I could not think, but merely felt   for which I fought and struggled   for which I defied him who conceived it   for which I paid penance   because I did not think it ..." "... and merely felt it!" "That thought   was only my love for you!" "How beautiful is her wondrous song   though its sense seems strange" "The light of your eyes is bright to my sight" "The stirring of your breath feels warm" "The sound of your voice is sweet" "But what you say   I cannot understand" "My mind fails to grasp far-off things   when my senses see and touch you!" "You have fettered me with fears" "You alone have taught me anguish" "You have me in powerful bonds   but no longer deprive me of my courage!" "I see Grane there, my trusty steed" "How happily he grazes - he who was asleep like me!" "Siegfried woke him with me" "My gaze feasts on your heavenly mouth" "My lips burn in thirst   to seek refreshment in the pasture of your eyes" "I see the shield there   that sheltered heroes" "There I see the helmet that protected my head" "No longer do they shield or protect me!" "A wondrous maid has pierced my heart" "A woman has wounded me I came without shield or helmet!" "I see the breastplate's steel" "A sharp sword cut it in two" "From my body it stripped the defences" "I am exposed and unprotected   defenceless, a weak woman!" "Through blazing fire I forced my way to you!" "No breastplate protected me" "Now flames flare in my breast" "My blood leaps in a blaze of passion" "A consuming fire is kindled in me" "The flames round Brunnhilde's rock   now burn within my breast!" "O woman, quench those flames!" "Still the seething fire!" "No god ever came so close to me!" "Heroes bowed before my virginity" "Sacrosanct I came from Valhalla!" "Woe is me!" "Oh, the shame of my plight!" "He who woke me has wounded me" "He cut off my breastplate and helmet I am Brunnhilde no more!" "To me you are still the dreaming maid I have not yet broken Brunnhilde's sleep" "Awaken, for me be a woman!" "My senses swoon   my reason reels" "Must my wisdom wither?" "Did you not sing to me that your wisdom was   the light leading your love to me?" "Doleful darkness clouds my sight" "My eyes dim" "Their light fades" "Night falls on me" "Out of darkness issues a wild whirl of fear" "Terror stalks   and rears up" "Night affrights your confined eyes" "Dread disappears as fetters fall" "Emerge from darkness, and see" "The day shines bright in the sun!" "Bright in the sun   shines the day of my shame!" "O Siegfried!" "See my anguish!" "I always was .." "... I always am   in sweet yearning bliss   anxious for your welfare" "Siegfried!" "Glorious being!" "Wealth of the world!" "Life of the earth!" "Laughing hero!" "Leave me, oh leave me in peace" "Do not come to me   inflamed by nearness!" "Do not overcome me with force" "Do not destroy your beloved!" "Have you seen your reflection in the stream?" "Did it not gladden your gaze?" "Had you stirred the water into waves   the surface would have been disturbed   and you would have seen yourself no more   only the rocking of the waters" "So do not touch me!" "Do not upset me!" "Ever happy will you then smile   out of my eyes into yours   a gay and joyous hero!" "O Siegfried!" "Radiant youth!" "Love yourself   and let me be" "Do not destroy what is your own!" "I love you." "Did you but love me too I am no more my own" "Were you but mine!" "A glorious flood flows before me" "With all my senses I see only   that sweet surging sea" "If it breaks my reflection, I burn to cool   my glowing heart in the flood I will leap, as I am, into the stream" "Oh, that its waters might swallow me   and my longing be lost in the flood!" "Awaken!" "Brunnhilde!" "Laugh and live, sweetest delight!" "Be mine!" "O Siegfried!" "I have always been yours!" "If you have always been, be so now!" "I will be yours for ever" "What you will be, be today!" "Let my arms hold you tight" "Let our eyes kindle, let us breathe each other's breath   eye to eye, mouth to mouth" "Then you will be to me what in fear you were and will be" "Then gone would be the doubt   whether Brunnhilde is now mine" "Whether I am now yours?" "Divine peace floods my being" "Purest light blazes in the glow" "Heaven's wisdom flees from me   chased by the joy of love!" "Whether I am now yours?" "Do you not see me?" "As my eyes devour you, are you not blinded?" "As my arms enfold you   do you not catch fire?" "As my blood surges   do you not feel its fire?" "Siegfried, do you not fear   this wild, passionate woman?" "As our blood sets us ablaze   our eyes scorch one another   our arms clasp each other   my daring and courage return" "And fear that I never learned   fear which you taught me   I have quite forgotten already!" "Childlike hero!" "Sublime boy!" "You silly store   of doughty deeds!" "Laughing, I must love you" "Laughing, I will bear my blindness" "Laughing let us perish" "Farewell, Valhalla's glittering world!" "Let your fortress fall to dust!" "Farewell, resplendent pomp of the gods!" "May your end be blissful, immortal race!" "Norns, snap your rope!" " Hail to the world!" " Descend, dusk of the gods!" "She is awake, she smiles at me!" "Your star shines upon me!" "Mine forever, always mine" "My inheritance, my one and all" "Radiant love!" "Laughing death!" "Translation (c) Lionel Salter Subtitling:" "David Hogarth (c) 1988 Philips Classics Productions"