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Updated: June 12, 2025
Siegmund and Sieglind kissed Kriemhild, and Siegfried also, many times with smiling mouth for their sorrow was ended; and Kriemhild's attendants got a gracious welcome. They brought the guests into Siegmund's palace, and lifted the fair damsels from the horses. There were knights enow eager to serve them.
He lay probing and torturing himself for another half-hour, till Vera's voice said coldly, beneath his window outside: 'You should clear away, then. We don't want the breakfast things on the table for a week. Siegmund's heart set hard. He rose, with a shut mouth, and went across to the bathroom. There he started.
I will lead to the Rhine five hundred stately men, that wherever in Burgundy I and mine be seen, all may say of thee: `Never did any king send afar so many men in better wise than thou hast done to the Rhine. If thou, O mighty king, wilt not turn back on this account, I'll tell thee that her noble love was subject unto Siegfried, Siegmund's son. Him thou hast seen here.
If ye would stay here with our foes, then have heroes never ridden to court more sorrowfully." "Ye shall journey free of care, commended unto God; ye shall be given safe-conduct to Siegmund's land, I'll bid them guard you well. To the care of you knights shall my dear child be given." When they marked that she would not go hence, then wept all of Siegmund's men alike.
The sun came bright-footed over the water, leaving a shining print on Siegmund's face. He lay, with half-closed eyes, sprawled loosely on the sand. Looking at his limbs, she imagined he must be heavy, like the bounders. She sat over him, with her fingers stroking his eyebrows, that were broad and rather arched. He lay perfectly still, in a half-dream.
Mime reproaches Siegfried for his ingratitude, reminding him of the care with which he nursed him in childish days. Siegfried cannot believe that Mime is his father, and in a fit of passion forces the dwarf to tell him the real story of his birth. Mime at length reluctantly produces the fragments of Siegmund's sword, and Siegfried, bidding him forge it anew, rushes out once more into the forest.
But now the mother had died, and Siegmund's child was left alone in the woods. Mimi was mean and selfish. He would not even have cared for a little child alone in the woods had he not thought that by so doing he might gain something for himself. As he looked at the baby he heard a strange voice saying: "Siegfried is his name, and only he who knows no fear can mend the sword." "The sword?
"It sounds like the cry of a little child. I shall run to my cave." But as he heard the cry again, something made him want to see what it was. He slipped cautiously through the bushes, in the direction from which the sound came. When he reached the place he found a little baby boy. This was the same forest to which Brunhilde had fled, bearing the broken sword to Siegmund's wife.
She imagined Siegmund sleeping in his room, while his dreams, dark-eyed, their blue eyes very dark and yearning at night-time, came wandering over the grey grass seeking her dreams. So she wove her fancies as she walked, until for very weariness she was fain to remember that it was a long way a long way. Siegmund's arm was about her to support her; she rested herself upon it.
Then they rode over a dreary, barren waste, and through a wild greenwood, and reached, at last, the hills which marked the beginning of King Siegmund's domains. Then Siegfried sent fleet heralds before them to carry to his father the tidings of his coming with his bride, fair Kriemhild. Glad, indeed, were old King Siegmund and Siegfried's gentle mother when they heard this news.
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