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[S.1.2: B] Wanderer (Wotan): Let’s stake our heads in a knowledge contest! (#114) My head is yours if you fail to learn from me (to ask?) what you need to know. Mime: Who trades in the earth's bowels? Wanderer: The Nibelungs. Dark-Alberich was their lord! He tamed them with a magic ring and made them amass a hoard. 498-500
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[S.1.2: C] Wanderer answers Mime's second question: it is the Giants who live on the earth's broad back. Mime: Who lives on the cloud-covered heights? Wanderer: The gods live there in Valhalla. Wotan, Light-Alberich, rules there with a spear he cut from the World-Ash's holiest bough. (#115) With it Wotan rules the world. (#116) Hallowed treaties' binding runes he whittled into the Spear's shaft. 500-504
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[S.1.2: D] Wanderer: You didn’t ask what you need to know. Now you must answer three questions or lose your head! Mime: (#117) It's long since I left my native land and mother's womb. (#20a) Wotan's eye has lighted on me. (#117) I now need to be wise: perhaps then I can redeem my head! 504-506
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[S.1.2: E] Mime answers Wotan’s questions about the Waelsung race and Nothung, but can't tell who alone can re-forge Nothung. 506-508
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[S.1.2: F] Wanderer: (#118) Only he who does not know the meaning of fear can re-forge Nothung: your wise head is forfeit to him! 508-512
Siegfried: Act One, Scene Three 513-538
[S.1.3] Mime's forge: Mime and Siegfried 513-538
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[S.1.3: A] Mime suffers a fit of existential fear, accompanied by a mix of Loge's Magic Fire Music #33, #34, #35, and #100, and Fafner's Serpent/Dragon Motif #48. 513-514
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[S.1.3: B] Siegfried returns and demands his re-forged sword. Mime: (To himself) (#118) Only he who never knew fear can re-forge Nothung: I've grown too wise for that! (to Siegfried, but half to himself) I wagered and lost my head to the man who never felt fear. I might flee the man who knows fear, but I forgot to teach you the meaning of fear, so my head may be forfeit to Siegfried unless I can teach him. 514-518
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[S.1.3: C] Siegfried says he’s never felt fear, but that he wishes to, as we hear the orchestra evoke Bruennhilde's protective ring of fire: #33; #34; #100; #98, #35, and Fafner's Serpent Motif #48. 518-519
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[S.1.3: D] Mime: Fafner can teach you at Envy-Cave. (#98) Siegfried: Is it far from the from the world? Mime: The world lies very close to the cave! 519-520
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[S.1.3: E] Siegfried: I’ll learn fear, then off into the world with Nothung. You can't forge it? I'll do it myself, in spite of my inexperience. (#103 Frag) Siegfried throws himself into gathering tools to re-forge Nothung himself. Siegfried files Nothung down to splinters, while Mime ineffectually protests Siegfried's ignorance of his craft. 520-522
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[S.1.3: F] Mime’s Dilemma: If Siegfried learns fear, he can’t kill Fafner and win me the Ring. But unless he learns fear, I'm dead! 523-524
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[S.1.3: G] Siegfried: What's the sword's name? Mime: (#119) Nothung! Siegfried: (#119) Nothung! Why did you have to shatter? (#120) I've turned your sharp-edged pride to chaff, in the melting pot I smelt the splinters. Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Hohei! hoho! (#121) Blow you bellows, fan the flame! While Siegfried smelts Nothung's filed splinters, Mime plots to drug Siegfried and kill him after Siegfried has killed Fafner. 524-527
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[S.1.3: H] While plunging (#122) molten Nothung into a bucket of water to cool and stiffen, Siegfried believes Mime is preparing soup (#123). 527-529
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[S.1.3: I] Siegfried begins to forge Nothung with hammer on anvil: (#124) Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Forge, my hammer, a hard-edged sword! While Siegfried re-forges Nothung on the anvil, Mime imagines a great future in store after he kills Siegfried and wins the Ring. 529-531
