journey lead you?
Siegfried: (stopping and turning around: #129b vari>>) There’s someone speaking: (#128b or #98?) perhaps he can tell me the way. (He approaches the Wanderer: #10 or #41 as Woodbird call?) (#15) I’m seeking a rock (#128b) that’s circled by fire: there sleeps a woman (#129b) I mean to wake.
Wanderer: Who bade you to seek out the rock, who bade you desire the woman?
Siegfried: (#129b) A forest songbird directed me: it gave me good advice.
Wanderer: (#128ab?; [[ #135 Strings >> ]]; #? [#115 or #152 Rhythm?]) A woodbird chatters of many things; no human can understand it: (#66 or #99 or #106?) how could you make any sense of its singing?
Siegfried: (#126) It was due to the blood of a fearsome dragon that fell before me at Envy-Cave [“Neidhoehle”]: (#98?) Its kindling blood had scarce wet my tongue when I understood what the birds were saying.
Wanderer: [[ #135 >>; #115 or #152 Hint?) If you slew the Giant, who urged you to defeat the mighty beast? Siegfried: (#123 Vari) I was led by Mime, a false-hearted dwarf; he wanted to teach me fear: (#109) but the dragon itself provoked the blow (#126 Vari) that proved to be his undoing; he snapped his jaws at me.
Wanderer: ([[ #135 ]]; #? – [possible hint of #83 with #20a harmony?]) Who made the sword so sharp and hard that this fiercest enemy fell before him?
Siegfried: (#103 Vari or Fragment? [the Vari associated with his forging]) I forged it myself since the smith was unable: #128b?; #41) I’d otherwise still be swordless.
Wanderer: ([[ #135 Horns ]]; #? [possible hint of #83 with #20a harmony?]; #Voc? [possible hint of Rhinedaughters music, such as #4?]) But who made the mighty fragments from which you forged the sword?
Siegfried: (#103 Forging Fragment?; #124 Varis) What do I know of that? I know only that the bits were no use (#58b?) unless I re-made the sword.
Wanderer: ([[ #135 ]] Breaking into cheerfully good-natured laughter) That I can well believe! (He observes Siegfried, well pleased: #66)
Siegfried: (Surprised: #66; #106 [or other music expressing Siegfried’s loneliness after killing Mime in S.2.3?]; #Voc? [back reference to vocal line of Siegfried’s
