Siegfried: (quietly, but with extreme determination: #140:) Were all forgotten that you gave me, one lesson alone I’ll never neglect (:#140): - (#134:) this first (#139:) drink to true (#?: [a strange harmony – what is it?]; #?: [when Siegfried sings “… to true remembrance …” we hear a motif which I believe recurs in T.3.2 right after Siegfried says “I thirst,” and also when Siegfried suggests to Gunther - following Hagen’s cue that Siegfried tell them how he came to learn the meaning of birdsong - that he sing him songs of his youth. Is the #Motif of Remembrance, (#@: e or f?), from T.2.5, distinct from #139? could it be a #174 frag or vari?]) remembrance [“Minne”: according to Spencer it can mean both love, and remembrance] (:#134; :#139), (#19 or #98?:) Bruennhild’, I drink to you (:#19 or #98?)!
(He raises the horn to his lips and takes a long draught. #154. He returns the horn to Gutrune who, ashamed and confused, stares at the ground. Siegfried fixes his gaze on her with suddenly inflamed passion. #156)
Siegfried: (#156b >>: [agitated vari]) You who sear my sight with your flashing glance, why lower your eyes before me? (Blushing, Gutrune raises her eyes to his face.) (passionately: #132 varis:; #156?:; #151?:) Ha, fairest of women! Close your eyes (:#156?; :#151?)! (#132 varis: ; #121 vari?: [perhaps a hint of the water music in fiery form heard during Siegfried’s smelting and forging songs in S.1.3, when he cooled the molten, fiery Nothung in water, to stiffen it?]) The heart in my breast is burned by their beam; in fiery streams I feel it consume and kindle my blood (:#132 varis; :#121 vari? [or other music associated with Siegfried cooling fiery Nothung in the water, to stiffen it?])! (#161 end frag) (with trembling voice: #156 or #132 agitated?:) Gunther, what is your sister’s name (:#156 or #132 agitated?)? (#153)
Gunther: (#156 >: [definitive]) Gutrune.
Siegfried: (quietly: #156b:) Are they goodly runes [“gute Runen”] that I read in her eyes (:#156b)? – (#45 frag: [or is it a #156 vari, a short, urgent phrase?]: He seizes Gutrune ardently by the hand.) I offered myself as your brother’s liegeman; (#155?:) the proud man turned me down (:#155?): - (#155) would you treat me as brashly as he did if I offered myself as your husband?
