CHAPLAIN.
I know him not.
[The knocking is repeated.]
Who knocks?
VOICE FROM WITHOUT.
Thy brother Siegfried,
Whose sins are as the hairs upon his head.
CHAPLAIN.
Then open!
[The door is opened and SIEGFRIED's body is brought in on the bier. KRIEMHILD and UTE with their maidens follow him.]
CHAPLAIN (turning toward the bier).