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(#139 is based on #24; possibly related to #153; #139 may be a (or the) basis for (#@: E), the #Motif of Remembrance)

[See #138 for #139’s dramatic context.]

 

[[#140]] Siegfried’s and Bruennhilde’s loving salute to each other

(#140 is in the family of love motifs which includes #25, #39, #40, #64b, #80b, #133, and possibly #145)

[See #138 for #140’s initial dramatic context; see below for #140’s more detailed dramatic context:]

"Bruennhilde: O Siegfried! Siegfried! Thrice-blessed hero! [[ #141 ]] You waker of life! All-conquering light! [[ #141b ]]; #40) If only you know, you joy of the world, (#140) how I have always loved you! (#140) (#140>>) You yourself were all I ever thought of, all I ever cared for! (#140>>?) I nurtured you, you tender child, before you were begotten; even before you were born, my shield already sheltered you: (#134) so long have I loved you, Siegfried! (#139; #19 Vari)

 

Siegfried: (softly and shyly: #66) So my mother did not die? Was the lovely woman merely asleep?

Bruennhilde: (Bruennhilde smiles and stretches out her hand to him in friendly fashion: #141b>>; #30b or #97 voc?) You blithesome child, your mother won’t come back to you. (#141>>) Your own self I am if you (#30b or #97?) but love me in my bliss. (#87) What you don’t know (#57b or #79?) I know for you: (#134) and yet I am knowing only because I love you! [[ #140 Vari ]] O Siegfried! Siegfried! Conquering light! [[ #141 >> ]] I loved you always: to me alone was Wotan’s thought revealed. (#88?) (#96?) The thought which I could never name; (#19?; #83 End Fragment [based on #54]; #96? [perhaps back reference to Bruennhilde’s remark to Wotan in V.3.3 that she knows he loves Siegmund, though Wotan is compelled to deny it, or to her remark that Wotan had taught her to love what he loves]) the thought I did not think but only felt; the thought for which I fought, (#96 Vari >>) did battle and have striven, (#140?) for which I flouted him who thought it. (#94 Vari; #58b or #79 Hint?) for which I atoned, incurring chastisement, (#96b >>) because, not thinking, I only felt it! Because that thought (#134) – could you guess it! – was but my love for you. [[ #140 Vari ]]”