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Women: (#164:) Siegfried? Gutrune’s husband (:#164)?

 

Vassals: (#164:) Gutrune’s husband (:#164)?

 

Bruennhilde: (#37 vari:) he forced delight [“Lust”] from me, and love [“Liebe”] (:#37 vari).

 

Siegfried: (#164?:; #149 voc?:) Are you so careless of your own honour (:#164?; :#149 voc?)? (#15 vari: [I believe these orchestral pulses are heard in T.2.5 when Bruennhilde tells Hagen and Gunther that her magical protection has made siegfried, unbeknownst to himself, invulnerable at his front?]) The tongue that defames it, (#164:) must I accuse of lying [“Luege”] (:#15 vari [reference to Siegfried’s invulnerability through Bruennhilde’s protection?]; :#164)? (#orch? [a musical figure which may reference alberich’s prediction in r.3 that loge will betray the gods, just as he once betrayed alberich for the gods’ sake, and alberich therefore feels confident? #33b, #35, #47, and #48 embryo are heard at that point]) – Listen whether I broke my faith! (#157:) Blood-brotherhood (:#157) (#158?:) have I sworn to Gunther (:#158?). (#165; #21?; #57?) (#165:) Nothung, my worthy (#21/#151b:) sword, (#165?:) defended the oath of loyalty (:#21/#151b; :165?); (#57 vari [starting here to convert to a sinuous vari, as heard in T.2.5 when Bruennhilde tells Hagen and Gunther how Siegfried, unbeknownst to him, is protected from wounds at his front by her magic?]) its sharp edge sundered me (#57; #164?) from this unhappy woman (:#57 vari [sinuous vari?]). (#164)

 

Bruennhilde: (#164:) You cunning hero, look how you’re lying [“Lueg’st”] (:#164), (#150?:) just as you’re wrong to appeal to your (#7? on “sword” [but the phrase order is reversed in the German]) sword (:#150?; :#7?)! (#59a vari [or is this the #57 sinuous vari, as heard above, and also in T.2.5 when Bruennhilde tells Hagen and Gunther how Siegfried, unbeknownst to himself, is protected by her magic from wounds?]) Well do I know (#57) its sharp-set edge, but I also know the scabbard in (#150 vari:) which your true friend (:#150 vari), (#57 sinuous vari?) Nothung, rested (#150 >> :) serenely (#57) against the wall while its master won him his sweetheart (:#150; :#57).