On my ear from afar
Falls an old sound familiar.
A horse comes flying
Swift through the air;
On the clouds it sweeps
In storm to the rock.
Who seeks the lonely one here?

WALTRAUTE'S voice [From the distance.

Brünnhilde, sister,
Wake if thou sleepest!


Brünnhilde kisses the ring that Siegfried has left with her. See p. 124.


BRÜNNHILDE [Starts from her seat.