The Ring of the Niblung I: The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner

Author:Richard Wagner [Wagner, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

HUNDING

Wondrous and wild the story

Told by thee, valiant guest:

Wehwalt—the Wölfing!

I think that dark rumours anent

This doughty pair have reached me,

Though unknown Wölfe

And Wölfing too.

SIEGLINDE

But tell me further, stranger:

Where dwells thy father now?

SIEGMUND

The Neidungs, starting anew,

Hounded and hunted us down;

But slain by the wolves

Fell many a hunter;

They fled through the wood,

Chased by the game:

Like chaff we scattered the foe.

But trace of my father I lost;

Still his trail grew fainter

The longer I followed;

In the wood a wolf-skin

Was all I found;

There empty it lay:

My father I had lost.—

In the woods I could not stay;

My heart longed for men and for women.—

By all I met,

No matter where,

If friend I sought,

Or woman wooed,

Still I was branded an outlaw;

Ill-luck clung to me;

Whatever I did right,

Others counted it wrong;

What seemed evil to me

Won from others applause.

Grim feuds arose

Wherever I went;

Wrath met me

At every turn;

Longing for gladness,

Woe was my lot:

I called myself Wehwalt therefore,

For woe was all that was mine.

[He looks at Sieglinde and marks her sympathetic gaze.

HUNDING

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