freedom – Hagen delivers freedom’s greeting, i.e., Alberich’s curse on his ring, to men and gods]) and hand round the wineskins (:#176
? [possible Loge/Alberich reference from R.4?])!
(#103
: [developed] Wineskins and drinking horns are produced. All settle down. #126
a inversion [repeated, and strongly marked!!!]; #176
? [or some other musical figure with two notes plus a grace-note twist, perhaps #81
’s or #164
’s twist?])
Hagen: (#152
: [in a festive mood, perhaps with some #19
harmony?]) He who scared away our game, you’ll now hear wondrous things of all that Siegfried hunted down (:#152
“Festive” vari?]).
Siegfried: (#152
vari >>:) I’m ill-provided for my meal: some of your spoils I must beg for myself (:#152
vari).
Hagen: (#174
a:) You’re empty-handed (#174
a)?
Siegfried (#103
vari:) I set out in search of wood-game (#174
a/#103
>>:) but only waterfowl showed itself: had I been better equipped, (#174
b/#103
frag:; #175
[&/or #33
b or #3
?]) I might have caught for you three wild waterbirds (:#174
b/#103
frag; :#175
[&/or #33
b or #3
?]), (#175
:; #174
c:; #164
?:; #170
a?:) who sang to me there on the Rhine (#170
a/#164
:) that I would be slain today (:#173
; :#174
c; :#170
a/#164
).
(Gunther starts up and looks darkly at Hagen. Siegfried settles down between Gunther and Hagen. #164
?)
Hagen: (Giving instructions to one of the vassals to fill a drinking-horn for Siegfried, which he then offers to the latter: #170
a:; #152
vari >>:; #21
voc?:) It would be an ill-fated hunt if the luckless hunter himself were brought down by a lurking head of game (:#170
a; :#152
vari; :#21
voc?)!
As so often in Wagner’s Ring libretto, which consistently conveys a fairy-tale-like naivete, we find in Hagen’s seemingly innocent remark that the hunting party has now found where Siegfried fled, a double meaning. Siegfried is the last in the long line of culture heroes of both religious faith and artistic creativity who have temporarily redeemed man’s religious longing for transcendent value
