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"Hark, Hagen, and let your answer be true. Do I head the race of the Gibichungs with honour?"

"I will press through the circle of flame," he exclaims. "I will seize her and bring her to you--if you will give me Gutrune for wife."

Thus I drink thee troth,

More than Walhalla's welfare, More than the good of the gods, The ring I guard.

Now, Nothung, witness thou, that chaste my wooing is; To keep my faith with my brother, separate me from his bride.

Phrases of the pledge of Brotherhood followed by the Br?nnhilde, Gutrune, and Sword motives accompany his words. The thuds of the typical Nibelung rhythm resound, and lead to the last crashing chord of this eventful act.

"Siegfried knows me not!" she whispers faintly, as she looks up into his face.

"Guardian of honour, hallowed weapon," she cries, "I dedicate your steel to his destruction. I bless your point that it may blight him. For broken are all his oaths, and perjured now he proves himself."

"His death!"

"Aye, all these things demand his death."

Here is the principal theme of their song in this scene:

Rest thee! Rest thee! O, God!

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