The Valkyrie: Act Two, Scene Two 339-396
[V.2.2] A mountain pass: Wotan and Bruennhilde 339-396
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[V.2.2: A] Bruennhilde: What ails you, father, I've never seen you so! Wotan: (#82) (#51) O shameful sorrow! gods' direst distress ["Noth"]! Bruennhilde: Confide in me. Wotan: Dare I speak it aloud, lest I lose the grip sustaining my will? Bruennhilde: I am your will! Wotan: Then what I say to you remains forever unspoken! Wotan will confess his secret anguish ["Noth"] to his “will”, Bruennhilde. 339-348
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[V.2.2: B] Wotan: When youthful love faded, I won the world for myself. 348-350
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[V.2.2: C] Wotan: Unwitting, I made deceitful bonds, but couldn’t give up love. 350-352
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[V.2.2: D] Wotan: Alberich’s Ring paid for Valhalla: I didn’t give it back to the Rhinedaughters. 352-353
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[V.2.2: E] Wotan: My quest to learn my fate from Erda gave birth to you, Bruennhilde. 353-357
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[V.2.2: F] Wotan: The men you Valkyries inspired were to avert the end Erda foretold. 357-358
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[V.2.2: G] Wotan: But if Alberich regains the Ring, he’ll turn my heroes against me. 358-360
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[V.2.2: H] Wotan: (#83) I need a hero, free from God’s law, to take the Ring from Fafner. 360-365
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[V.2.2: I] Wotan: I find with loathing only myself in all I do: thus I can’t make a free hero. 365-378
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[V.2.2: J] Bruennhilde: Isn’t Siegmund free? Wotan: No! I must murder him I most love! 379-380
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[V.2.2: K] Wotan: Only Alberich can make a free hero: let his son [Hagen] be heir! (#20b/#12) I want the end of the gods and of all I've achieved! 380-390
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[V.2.2: L] Bruennhilde: (#83) What must your child do? Wotan: (#83) Fight for Fricka! What use is my "will" to me? I can’t will a free hero! 390-394
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[V.2.2: M] Bruennhilde: But you love Siegmund! Wotan: (#83) Siegmund will fall. Your task is to kill him. (#84) Don't you dare disobey my order! (#85) 394-396
The Valkyrie: Act Two, Scene Three 397-400
[V.2.3] A mountain pass: Siegmund and Sieglinde 397-400
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[V.2.3: A] Sieglinde is ashamed that she gave herself without love to Hunding. 397-398
