Siegfried could have - penetrated Loge’s protective Ring of fire, and stands before Bruennhilde, who is shocked that some man other than Siegfried could have gained access to her:]
"Bruennhilde: (#19 Chord) Betrayal! –
(Bruennhilde shrinks back in terror, fleeing to the front of the stage, from where she fixes her gaze on Siegfried in speechless astonishment.)
Bruennhilde: (#42 End Fragment >) Who forced his way here?
(Siegfried remains on the rock at the back, observing Bruennhilde and resting motionlessly on his shield. Long silence: #154; #152)
Siegfried: (With a disguised – rougher – voice: #42 End Fragment; #87 or #45 Hint?) Bruennhilde! (#154) A suitor has come, whom your fire did not frighten. (#154) I woo you as my wife; (#152) follow me of your own will!
Bruennhilde: (Trembling violently) Who is the man (#161) who has done what only the (#42 End Fragment) strongest was fated to do? (#19b?)
Siegfried: (Motionless as before: #154) A hero who’ll tame you, (#152) if force alone can constrain you.
Bruennhilde: (Seized with horror) A demon has leaped on to yonder stone; - (#161 Vari >>) an eagle came flying to tear at my flesh! (#19/#20a Vari?) Who are you, dread creature? (Long silence: #42; #87?) Are you of human kind? Are you from Hella’s (#42 or #154?) night-dwelling host? (#154)
Siegfried: (as before, beginning with a somewhat quavering voice but continuing with increasing confidence: #155?) A Gibichung am I, (#101 Fragment; #152) and Gunther’s the name of the hero whom, woman, you must follow.
Bruennhilde: (breaking out in despair: #81B Varis >>) Wotan, grim-hearted, pitiless god! (#164) Now I see the sense of my sentence: (#161 >>) To scorn and sorrow you hound me hence!”
[Shortly thereafter Siegfried sadistically forces the Ring off of her finger, and orders her to wait for him in her cave.]
