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Already we have given you more than you should expect, all that shining heap and the helmet besides." "I will not give you any more!" roared Wotan. "Not all the mighty world shall take this ring from my finger!" "Then I shall be gone," said Fafner. "I was afraid you would not give me enough gold. Freya is mine forevermore." Wotan's family began to plead for Freya.
"Oh, that was only in jest," said Wotan. "I could not think of letting Freya go. But I shall pay you well for the castle. I shall give you something else that will be just as good for you." Fafner grew very angry and screamed: "Cease your foolish talk. I built your beautiful stone palace. I drudged and toiled and heaped the massive rocks.
Freya again belongs to me." "Not yet!" cried Fafner, as he peeped through a space in the heap. "I can see her eyes through here." Then, pointing to the ring on Wotan's finger: "Bring that ring and put it in this space." "Never!" cried Wotan. Then Loki spoke. "The ring belongs to the Rhine-maidens, and Wotan is going to return it to them.
Siegmund and Sieglinda are long dead, Sieglinda after giving birth to Siegfried; not far off is Hate-cave, where the dragon Fafner lies guarding his precious gold amongst it the Ring; far away Brünnhilda sleeps on the mountain, surrounded by her wall of fire. There she lay on the evening of Siegmund's death; there she has lain since.
One giant, Fafner, kills his brother to get all, and transforms himself into a dragon to guard his wealth. The gods enter Valhalla over the rainbow bridge. This ends the first part of the drama, called the Rhine-Gold. The second part, the Valkyrie, relates how Wotan still covets the ring. He cannot take it himself, for he has given his word to the giants. He stands or falls by his word.
Sieglinde wishes to die, but Brünnhilde entreats her to live for the sake of her child that is to be, and giving her the splintered fragments of Siegmund's sword, bids her escape to the forest, where Fafner watches over his treasure. The voice of the wrathful Wotan is now heard in the distance.
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