Editing Götterdämmerung (section)

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Meanwhile, Brünnhilde is visited on her rock by her [[Valkyrie]] sister Waltraute, who recounts that [[Odin|Wotan]] returned from his wanderings with [[Gungnir|his spear]] shattered. The spear was the symbol of the god's authority and the source and instrument of his power, carved with all the treaties through which he ruled. Unable to influence events any more, he has ordered branches of [[Yggdrasil|the World tree]] to be piled around Valhalla by its heroes and waits in resignation for [[Huginn and Muninn|his ravens]] to bring him news about the ring (''"Höre mit Sinn, was ich dir sage!"'' - ''Waltraute's Monologue''). Waltraute begs Brünnhilde to return the ring to the [[Rhinemaidens]], but Brünnhilde refuses to relinquish the pledge of Siegfried's love, and Waltraute rides away in despair.

Crossing the ring of fire, Siegfried arrives disguised as Gunther by using the [[Tarnhelm]] and claims Brünnhilde for his wife (''"Brünnhild', ein Freier kam"''). Though Brünnhilde, terrified by the appearance of an unknown man, tries to resist him, without the divine powers she has earlier renounced for love's sake she has now nothing with which to defend herself but the ring, which Siegfried manages to snatch cruelly from her hand during a fight, being immune to its coercive power thanks to his fearlessness. Putting the ring on his own hand instead, Siegfried then spends the night with Brünnhilde on her rock, placing the magic sword Nothung between them as a witness to his loyalty to Gunther and his keeping the promise to bring Brünnhilde untouched (''"Nun Nothung, zeuge du"'').