Bruennhilde: [[ #138: ]] Hail to you, sun! Hail to you, light (:#138)! (#140?:) Hail to you, [[ #139: ]] light-bringing day (:#139)! (#87:) Long was my sleep (:87)! (#87) Awakened am I: (#92?:) who is the hero who woke me (:#92?)?
(Profoundly moved by her appearance and voice, Siegfried stands as though rooted to the spot.)
Siegfried: (#92 >>> :) I pressed through the fire that burned round the fell; (#92:) I broke open your tight-fitting helmet (:#92): Siegfried am I who woke you. (#92 [emphatic, powerful version])
Bruennhilde: (sitting upright) [[ #138: ]]; #? [figurations reminiscent of those which accompanied Siegmund pulling Nothung out of Hunding’s house-ash in V.1.3?]) Hail to you, gods! (#138:) Hail to you, world! Hail to you, [[ #139: ]] resplendent earth [“Erde” – i.e., Erda] (:#139)! (#19 vari or #20a vari hint?: [perhaps a hybrid of #19/#20a – or #17? - as heard in a triumphant vari when Bruennhilde rejects Waltraute’s plea that she return the ring to the Rhine to redeem gods and world from Alberich’s curse, since Bruennhilde says Siegfried’s love shines from the ring, and she’d never give it (love) up for the gods’ sake?]) My sleep is at an end now (:#19 vari or #20a vari [or #19/#20a hybrid?): awakened, I see (#103?:) it is Siegfried who woke me!
Siegfried: (breaking out in the most sublime ecstasy: [[ #140: ]]) [during the following Bruennhilde’s and Siegfried’s lines alternate] All hail to the mother who gave me birth; hail to the earth [“Erde”] that gave me nurture: that I saw the eye that smiles on me now in my bliss (:#140)!
Bruennhilde: [[ #140: ]] All hail to the mother who gave you birth; hail to the earth [“Erde”] that gave you nurture; your gaze alone was fated to see me, [[ #139: ]] to you alone was I fated to wake (:#140; :#139)!
(#66 frag:; [[ #141: ]]/#92: Both remain lost in radiant delight as they gaze at one another.)
Cooke noted that from the finale of V.3.3, when Wotan put Bruennhilde to sleep, till now, when Siegfried wakes her, the “Fate Motif” #87 has not modulated, but has remained in the same key, but now with Bruennhilde’s waking it begins to modulate again, as if fate is again at work in the world now that Siegfried has woken Bruennhilde? If true, this would be most interesting, since it is often said that Bruennhilde in the end offers man redemption from fate. But one thing is certain: Wotan
