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Updated: June 6, 2025
The music accompanying this great scene, imitating the various sounds of the forge, the flutter of the fire, the hissing of the water, the filing of the sword, and the blows upon the anvil, is realism carried to the very extreme of possibilities. The great exploit has been successful, and Siegfried at last has Siegmund's sword.
Siegfried, his heart inexpressibly lightened by the positive knowledge that Mime is neither father nor any kin to him, bursts into merry singing: "To go away, out of the woods into the world. Never shall I come back!... As the fish gaily swims in the flood, as the finch freely flies afar, so shall I fly, so shall I dart... that I may never, Mime, see you more!"
And, lo! for many days we have watched and tried to divide it equally. But we cannot agree." "What hire will you give me if I divide it for you?" asked Siegfried. "Name what you will have," answered the princes. "Give me the sword which lies before you on the glittering heap." Then Niblung handed him the sword, and said, "Right gladly will we give it.
It is in the Sigurd-, Fafnir-, Brynhild-, Gudrun-, Oddrun-, Atli-, and Hamdir Lays of the Norse Scripture that the original nature of the older German songs, which must have preceded the epic, can best be guessed. Rhapsodic lays, referring to Siegfried, were, in all probability, part of the collection which Karl the Great, the Frankish Kaiser, ordered to be made.
All his folk must first toil sore. They wound him in a rich cloth. Not one, I ween, was there that wept not. Uta, the noble queen and all her women wailed bitterly for Siegfried. When the folk heard they sang the requiem, and that Siegfried was in his chest, they crowded thither, and brought offerings for his soul. Amidst of his enemies, he had good friends enow.
'Among them all show me her whom thou wouldst choose most gladly as your bride. 'Seest thou the fairest of the band, cried the King, 'she who is clad in a white garment? It is she and no other whom I would wed. Right merrily then laughed Siegfried. 'The maiden, said he gaily, 'is in truth none other than Queen Brunhild herself.
His spirit has reached a state of philosophic calm. He has learned better certainly than to meddle any more with anything that concerns the accursed Ring. He is brought into the neighbourhood of the still interested actors in that old drama in part by curiosity; in part, no doubt, by the wish to watch the actions of Siegfried, his beloved children's child.
Very soon it became noised about that Siegfried and a company of strange knights, fair and tall, had come again to Burgundy and to the home of the Burgundian kings.
At first, Gunther would bid Hagen be silent, and lay aside his hate of the mighty hero. But afterward he would listen and only murmur, 'If Siegfried heard thy words, none of us would be safe from his wrath. For King Gunther was weak and easily made to fear. 'Fear not, said Hagen grimly, 'Siegfried shall never hear of our plots. Leave the matter to me.
Better for him that it had remained undone, for mighty is his blame. Then said false Hagen: What rue ye? Surely our care is past. Who will now withstand us? Right glad am I that Siegfried is no more. Loud was Siegfrieds dole for Kriemhild. Never was so foul a murder done as thou hast done on me, O king, he said to Gunther. I saved thy life and honour.
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