[Stares, as if fainting, before her; exhausted.
O woman undone,
Where now thy defence?
SIEGFRIED
[Drives her on with a gesture of command. Trembling and with tottering steps she goes into the cave.
Now, Nothung, witness thou
That chastely I have wooed,
And loyal been to my brother;
Lie betwixt me and his bride!
[He follows Brünnhilde. The curtain falls. In his natural voice.
