'Twas there that I drew the breath
I called to thee with;
A quick passage I made!
Slower behind me a pair
On board a vessel come.
HAGEN
Hast thou won Brünnhild'?
SIEGFRIED
Wakes Gutrune?
HAGEN [Calling towards the hall.
Hoiho! Gutrune!
Haste and come!
Siegfried is here.
Why dost delay?
SIEGFRIEDTurning to the hall.
How Brünnhild' yielded
Ye shall both be told.
[Gutrune comes from the hall to meet him.
SIEGFRIED
Give me fair greeting,
Gibich's child!
I come to thee with joyful news.
GUTRUNE
Freia greet thee
To the honour of all women!
SIEGFRIED
To thy lover glad
Be gracious;
For wife I have won thee to-day.
GUTRUNE
Comes then Brünnhild' with my brother?
SIEGFRIED
None ever wooed with more ease.
GUTRUNE
Was he not scorched by the fire?
SIEGFRIED
It had not burnt him, I trow;
But I broke through it instead,
That I for wife might win thee.
GUTRUNE
And no harm didst thou take?
SIEGFRIED
I laughed 'mid the surge of the flames.
GUTRUNE
Did Brünnhild' think thee Gunther?
SIEGFRIED
Like were we to a hair;
The Tarnhelm saw to that,
As Hagen truly foretold.
HAGEN
I gave thee counsel good.
GUTRUNE
And so the bold maid was tamed?
SIEGFRIED
Her pride—Gunther broke.
GUTRUNE
Did she give herself to thee?
SIEGFRIED
Through the night the vanquished