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?