GUNTHER [Softly.

Brünnhilde's ring?

HAGEN

The ring the Niblung wrought.

GUNTHER [Sighing deeply.

'Twould be the end of Siegfried.

HAGEN

His death would serve us all.

GUNTHER

But Gutrun', to whom
He has been given!
How could we look in her face
If her husband we had slain?