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need (#12) envy no longer! (#107 vari?) Rhinegold, radiant gold! [[ #174c ]] How happily then you would shine, [[ #175 ]] you free-spirited star of the deep!”

 

(#103: Siegfried’s horn call is heard, closer than before: #175 [#175, representing the Rhinedaughters’ joyous swimming in the Rhine, begins to sound throughout this scene both like music characterizing fire, but also the music which described the fluttering of the Woodbird’s wings])

 

Woglinde: [[ #176 ]] I can hear his horn.

 

Wellgunde: [[ #176 ]] The hero’s approaching.

 

Flosshilde: Let us take counsel!

 

(#175 [sounding like Loge’s flames]: All three plunge beneath the waves. [[ #176 ]]: Siegfried appears on the cliff, fully armed.)

 

Siegfried: [[ #176 ]] #Voc? [Is this a musical allusion to Siegfried’s remark to himself at the beginning of S.3.2: “My Woodbird’s flown away. With fluttering flight and sweet-sounding song it blithely showed me the way.”?]) An elf [“Albe”] has led me astray, so that I lost the trail: (#103 frag; [[ #176>> ]] Hey, rogue! In which hill have you hidden the game so swiftly?

 

The Rhinedaughters: (#174abc): Resurfacing and resuming their dance) Siegfried!

 

Flosshilde: (#174b>>) Why are you grumbling at the ground?

 

Wellgunde: With whatever elf are you angry?

 

Woglinde: Has a nixie been teasing you? (#175)

All three: (#174c) Tell us, Siegfried, tell us! [[ #176 ]]

Siegfried: (observing them with a smile.) Did you spirit away the shaggy-haired fellow who disappeared from my sight? ([[ #176 ]]; #4 or #128b?) If he’s your lover I gladly leave him to you, you light-hearted women!

 

(The Rhinedaughters laugh: #175 [but now #175 sounds like the music describing the Woodbird’s wings fluttering when it led Siegfried to Bruennhilde in the finale of S.2.3 and the beginning of S.3.2, as well as some of Loge’s fire-music])

 

Woglinde: [[ #176>> ]]; #156 or #163 vari?) Siegfried, what will you give us (#Orch? [Sounds like the music describing Siegfried running off after the Woodbird in S.2.3 after it told him to seek Bruennhilde, as it guides him to her]) if we grant you your game?