making fun of Fafner’s teeth in S.2.2?])! Since I scarcely believed your flattering tongues, your threats can alarm me still less (:#174c; :#54).
The Rhine-daughters: (#161:) Siegfried! Siegfried (:#161)! We’re telling the truth: (#19?) avoid, (#54 vari >:) avoid the curse! (#19 vari >>:; #3 vari = (#@: c or d?:) Night-spinning Norns have woven it into the rope of primal law (:#19 vari; :#3 vari = (#@: c or d?). (#45 frag; #21 vari)
Siegfried: My sword once splintered a spear: (#19/#3 vari = (#@: c or d?:) primeval law’s eternal rope – (:#19/#3 vari = (#@: c or d?) (#3 vari = (#@: c or d?:) though they wove (#19 vari:) wild curses into its strands (:#3 vari = (#@: c or d?); :#19 vari) – (#92) Nothung will hew from the hands of the Norns! (#77?; #109; #48 vari) (#48 vari; #126?) A dragon once warned me against the curse (#37:) but it did not teach me fear (:#37); - (He looks at the ring. #59a) (#20ab vari: [Dunning identified this previously as #17. The #20-based music here sounds somewhat like the compound motif #20b/#12 which accompanied Wotan’s remarks to bruennhilde that the wala had predicted the gods’ end would not be long delayed once Alberich’s child was born, and that he leaves the Nibelung’s son heir to all that he despises, and also like the #20a &/or #20b vari associated with Alberich’s threat in R.3 that his hoard will rise from the silent depths to day, but it has a glib ending of the sort Loge would have added, reminiscent of “Arrogance of Power,” (#@: b); it is also reminiscent of the optimistic vari of #19/#20a heard during Wotan’s and Loge’s emergence from Nibelheim in R.3-4, which seems akin to the Triumphant vari of #17, or the #19/#20a hybrid, associated with Bruennhilde’s refusal to honor Waltraute’s request to give the ring back to the Rhine, because she no longer cares about the gods, because Siegfried’s love shines from the ring? This musical moment, in conjunction with #59a heard above, is also reminiscent of the apparent influence of #17/#19/#20 upon #59abc in S.2.3 as Siegfried emerged from Fafner’s cave, having already forgotten the “use” to which the Woodbird had told him the tarnhelm and ring could be put?]) Though the ring were to win me the world’s inheritance, (#174a:) for the sake of love’s favours [“Minne Gunst”] (#174c:) I’d gladly forego it; (#175: [&/or #33b?]) I’ll give it to you if you grant me your favours (:#174c; :#175 [&/or #33b?]). (#?: [Dunning denies #82’s presence here. perhaps this music references Waltraute’s first arrival at Bruennhilde’s rock in T.1.3. Could it reference Bruennhilde’s resistance to Waltraute’s plea to return the ring to the Rhine? Could it be from Wotan’s confession, something relating to his quest for a free hero, in V.2.2?]) But since you
