[Helmwige and Gerhilde run to the wood, followed by Siegrune and Rossweisse.
THE VALKYRIES
Hojotoho! Hojotoho!
Heiaha!
WALTRAUTE [Looking into the wood.
To earth has sunk
Grane the strong one!
GRIMGERDE
From the saddle swift
She snatches the maid.
THE OTHER VALKYRIES [Running into the wood.
Sister! Sister!
What has occurred?
[The Valkyries all return to the stage; Brünnhilde accompanies them, leading and supporting Sieglinde.
Turns and looks
out anxiously,
then comes back.
BRÜNNHILDE [Breathless.
Shield me and help
In dire distress!
THE VALKYRIES
Whence rodest thou hither,
Hasting so hard?
Thus ride they only who flee.
BRÜNNHILDE
I flee for the first time
And am pursued:
Warfather follows close.
THE VALKYRIES [Terribly alarmed.
Hast thou gone crazy?
Speak to us! What?
Pursued by Warfather?
Flying from him?
BRÜNNHILDE [Turns and looks out anxiously, then comes back.
O sisters, spy
From the rocky peak!
Look north and tell me
If Warfather nears!
[Ortlinde and Waltraute spring up the peak to the look-out.
Quick! Is he in sight?
ORTLINDE
A storm from the north
Is nearing.
WALTRAUTE
Darkly the clouds
Congregate there.
THE VALKYRIES
Warfather, riding
His sacred steed, comes!
BRÜNNHILDE
The wrathful hunter,
He rides from the north;
He nears, he nears, in fury!
Save this woman!
Sisters your help!
BRÜNNHILDE
* "I flee for the first time
And am pursued:
Warfather follows close.
.....................
He nears, he nears, in fury!
Save this woman!
Sisters, your help!"