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Because you soon showed that Brunhilda's dragon was only pasteboard and blue fire after all one of the shams you despise. I'm not afraid of him now.... Oh, it's wonderful.... It's beautiful.... He took her other hand and held the two covered over by his own as he said with an odd solemnity: 'Lady Bridget O'Hara will you come away with me to the Bush, leaving everything else behind you?
"Bring me here," he cried to the dwarf, "a thousand Nibelung knights." At the call of the dwarf the warriors gathered around Sir Siegfried. Then they sailed with him to Brunhilda's isle and the queen and her kinsmen, fearing such warriors, welcomed them instead of fighting.
His son, Wulfgang, fought under Belisarius against the Goths; his son again, Ulgang, under Belisarius against Persian and Lombard; his son or grandson was Queen Brunhilda's confidant in France, and became Duke of Burgundy; and after that the fortunes of his family were mixed up with the Merovingian kings of France, and then again with the Lombards in Italy, till one of them emerges as Guelf, count of Altorf, the ancestor of our Guelphic line.
In rapid outline I sketched the music for the Song of the Norns, or Daughters of the Rhine, which in this first draft was only roughly suggested. But when I attempted to turn Brunhilda's first address to Siegfried into song my courage failed me completely, for I could not help asking myself whether the singer had yet been born who was capable of vitalising this heroic female figure.
To this Gunther agreed, and the voyage to Iceland began. When Gunther and his companions neared Brunhilda's palace the gates were opened and the strangers were welcomed. Siegfried thanked the queen for her kindness and told how Gunther had come to Iceland in hope of winning her hand. "If in three contests he gain the mastery," she said, "I will become his wife.
The day was set for the wedding, and the young prince went home to prepare for the great event. "But he had been gone only a short time when a powerful giant arrived at Brunhilda's home. He came from the far north. His name was Bodo. "He asked for the princess in marriage, but her heart had already been given away.
She did not care for the giant, even though he gave her the most elegant presents, a beautiful white horse, jewels set in gold, and chains of amber. "'I dare not refuse the giant, said Brunhilda's father. 'He is very powerful, and we must not make him angry. You must marry him, my daughter, in three days. "The poor maiden wept bitterly. It seemed as though her heart would break.
At this veiled opposition all the suspicion in Brunhilda's nature turned from Wilhelm to the high official, and she spoke to him in the tones of one accustomed to prompt obedience. "Prepare an unconditional pardon, and send it immediately to the Emperor without further comment, either to him or to me." The minister bowed low and retired.
When they reached the Brunhilda's deck I saw Olaf take the wheel and the two fall into earnest talk. I beckoned to O'Keefe and we stretched ourselves out on the bow hatch under cover of the foresail. He lighted a cigarette, took a couple of leisurely puffs, and looked at me expectantly. "Well?" I asked.
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