Siegfried: [[ #158>>: ]] The freshening blood of flowering life I let trickle into the drink (:#158). (#151/#33 [including part of the Norns’ song about Loge?])
Gunther: [[ #158>>: ]] Bravely blended in brotherly love, may our lifeblood bloom in the drink (:#158)! (#151/#33; #21?)
Both: [[ #160: ]] [is #160 related to #92c or #71 vari “Hero”?] Faith I drink to my friend (:#160): (#156b vari) (#111: [previously Dunning called this #127?]) Happy [“froh”] and free [“frei”] [the following phrase sung to #157 appears at the end of the German sentence] (#157:) may blood-brotherhood (:#157) spring from our bond today (:#111 or #127?)! (#21/#151)
Gunther: [[ #159: ]] If a brother breaks the bond –
Siegfried: [[ #159: ]] If a friend betrays his faithful friend –
Both: (#160 vari: [Dunning agrees this music may include a subtle reference to Froh’s remark in R.4 that: “Sad it would be for us all to be severed forever from her … ,” [i.e., Freia] “… who grants us the bliss of sorrowless youth everlasting”) after the giants had returned with Freia hoping that Wotan would ransom her with the Nibelung hoard. Dunning suggests it may be a #21 vari, but I believe it may hint at #37?]) What we drank today in drops of sweetness shall stream in rivers (:#160 vari [with possible Froh reference &/or #37 hint?]), (#159?:) in righteous atonement of a friend (:#159?).
Gunther: (Drinking and then offering the horn to Siegfried. #51; #21) thus do I swear the oath!
(#? [five ascending repeats of a musical figure comprised of three notes, which may have originated in Siegfried’s attempts to imitate the Woodbird’s calls in S.2.2, &/or may also be heard just before Siegfried begins his narrative about how he came to understand the woodbirds, which he sings for Gunther, Hagen, and the Gibichungs, at Hagen’s prompting, in T.3.2?])
