Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas / A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work

by W. J. Henderson

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WALTRAUTE.

The stem in sticks he bade them to stack and arrange in a bulk, 'round the Aesir's sanctified seat. The Gods he called unto the council;

Turn next to the last scene of all, to the entrance of Brünnhilde. We find that the music is this:

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Brünnhilde has come to fulfil the prophecy of Erda; the dusk of the gods is at hand. And so when she commands the retainers to erect the funeral pyre, which is kindled at Walhalla, we hear once again the "Götterdämmerung" theme as it was introduced to us in the Waltraute scene: