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"O Siegfried, Herrliche Hort der Welt! Leben der Erde, lachender Held!" Her red-blonde hair shone in the light and the helmet glittered: "Siegfried! Siegfried!" It was the Lehmann come back! Ah, no it was more than the Lehmann! Ritter gazed and listened, and his heart gave a leap.
Siegfried, having passed unharmed through the fire, wakes Brynhild and goes through all the fancies and ecstasies of love at first sight in a duet which ends with an apostrophe to "leuchtende Liebe, lachender Tod!", which has been romantically translated into "Love that illumines, laughing at Death," whereas it really identifies enlightening love and laughing death as involving each other so closely as to be usually one and the same thing.
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