Grimgerde: (#48) No place it is for a helpless woman.
Bruennhilde: (#48) And yet the forest will surely shield her from Wotan’s wrath: the mighty god shuns it and shies from the spot.
[more warnings of Wotan’s approach set to #83?]
Bruennhilde: Then hurry away and head for the east! In brave defiance bear all burdens – hunger and thirst, thorns and stones: laugh if “Noth” (#40?) or suffering plague you! Know this alone and ward it always: [[ #92ab ]] the world’s noblest hero, o woman, you harbour within your sheltering womb!
[[ #92ac ]] [#92c perhaps #71 Vari known as “Hero” or #57 rhythmic Vari?]: She takes the fragments of Siegmund’s sword from beneath her coat of mail and hands them to Sieglinde.)
Bruennhilde: For him keep safe the sword’s stout fragments; from his father’s field I haply took them: [[ #92ab ]] let him who’ll wield the newly forged sword receive his name from me [[ #92ac ]] [#92c perhaps #71 Vari “Hero” or #57 Rhythmic Vari?] – may (#Octave Drop) ‘Siegfried’ joy in victory!
Sieglinde: (deeply stirred) [[ #93 ]] Sublimest wonder! Glorious maid! You true-hearted woman, I thank you for sacred solace! (#92) for him whom we loved I’ll save what’s most dear: (#77?) may my gratitude’s guerdon smile upon you one day! Fare you well! (#93; #90a?) Let Sieglinde’s woe be your blessing! (She hurries away downstage left.)”
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[[#93]] Sieglinde’s praise of Bruennhilde’s heroic service to the Waelsung race as the “Sublimest Wonder”
Popularly but incorrectly known as the “Redemption Motif” or “Redemption by Love Motif”; Currently known as the “Glorification of Bruennhilde,” or as Wagner’s “Hymn to Heroes.”
(#93 in the family of motifs which includes #8, #23, and #149. Cooke regards the motifs of this family as unified under the theme of “Woman’s Inspiration”, but that doesn’t really sum up their meaning.)
[See #92 for #93’s dramatic context]
