Vassals: (#164) Gutrune’s husband?
Bruennhilde: (#37 Vari) He forced delight [“Lust”] from me, and love [“Liebe”].
Siegfried: (#164?; #149 Voc?) Are you so careless of your own honour? (#15 Vari [perhaps #15 Vari as heard when Bruennhilde tells Hagen and Gunther in T.2.5 that through her magical protection, unbeknownst to Siegfried, the front of his body is invulnerable to wounds?]) the tongue that defames it, (#164) must I accuse of lying? ([#33b, #35, #47, or #48 Embryo, or other music referencing that moment in R.3 when Alberich predicted Loge would one day betray the gods, just as he betrayed Alberich for the gods’ sake?]) Listen whether I broke my faith! (#157) Blood-brotherhood (#158?) have I sworn to Gunther. (#21?; #57?) (#165) Nothung, my worthy (#21/#151b) sword, defended the oath of loyalty; (#57 Vari [#57 transforms into a sinuous variant here, perhaps as heard in T.2.5 when Bruennhilde tells Hagen and Gunther how Siegfried, unbeknownst to him, is protected at his front from wounds by her magic?]) its sharp edge sundered me (#57; #164?) from this unhappy woman. (#164)
Bruennhilde: (#164) You cunning hero, look how you’re lying [“Lueg’st”], (#150?) just as you’re wrong to appeal to your (#7?) sword! (#59a Vari [or is this the #57 sinuous Vari heard above?]) Well do I know (#57) its sharp-set edge, (#150?) but I also know the scabbard in (#150 Vari) which your true friend, (#57 Sinuous Vari?), Nothung, rested (#150>>) serenely (#57) against the wall, while its master won him his sweetheart.
(The Vassals and women gather together in lively indignation.)
The Vassals: What! Has he broken faith! (#150 vari) Has he tarnished Gunther’s honor?
Gunther: (#170a) I’ll be disgraced, (#150) and held in shame, if you don’t refute the words she utters. (#5/#150)
Gutrune: (#170a) Faithlessly, (#150) Siegfried, you plotted deception? (#33a Vari/#150) Bear witness that she accuses you falsely!
The Vassals: (#33a/#150) Clear yourself, if you’re in the right: silence the charge, swear an oath!
Siegfried: (#170a/#150) If I silence the charge and swear an oath, which of you’ll venture his weapon upon it? (#170ab)
Hagen: (#164?; #170ab) The point of my weapon I’ll venture upon it: let it honour the oath!
