WANDERER
[Enters from the wood, and stops opposite Alberich.
To Neidhöhl'
By night I have come;
In the dark who is hiding there?
[As from a sudden rent in the clouds moonlight streams forth and lights up the Wanderer's figure.
ALBERICH
[Recognises the Wanderer and shrinks back at first in alarm, but immediately after breaks out in violent fury.
'Tis thou who comest thus?
What wilt thou here?
Go, get thee hence!
Begone, thou insolent thief!
WANDERER [Quietly.
Schwarz-Alberich
Wanders here?
Guardest thou Fafner's house?
ALBERICH