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[V.2.3: B] Sieglinde’s hysterical prevision of Hunding’s revenge (#86) against Siegmund. 398-400
The Valkyrie: Act Two, Scene Four 401-410
[V.2.4] A mountain pass: Siegmund, Sieglinde, and Bruennhilde 401-410
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[V.2.4: A] (#88) Bruennhilde announces Siegmund's fate (#87), that he must die and join Wotan's heroes in Valhalla. Sieglinde must remain awhile among the living. But Siegmund (#89) refuses to follow Bruennhilde to Valhalla without Sieglinde. 401-403
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[V.2.4: B] Bruennhilde: He [Wotan] who gave you the sword takes its power away. 403-405
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[V.2.4: C] Siegmund rejects the gods’ paradise, indicts Bruennhilde's lovelessness. 405-408
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[V.2.4: D] To save Siegmund’s baby, Bruennhilde (#90) takes his side against Wotan. 408-410
The Valkyrie: Act Two, Scene Five 411-416
[V.2.5] A mountain pass: Siegmund, Sieglinde, Bruennhilde, Hunding, and Wotan 411-416
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[V.2.5: A] Sieglinde, asleep and dreaming, returns in nightmare to the terrible moment when the Neidings abducted her, killed her mother, and separated her from her father and brother Siegmund. Wotan preempts Bruennhilde’s intervention, letting Hunding kill Siegmund. 411-414
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[V.2.5: B] Bruennhilde escapes with Sieglinde and Nothung’s fragments. Wotan feels unbearable anguish in the presence of his dead son Siegmund. Nonetheless, he rages off in search of his disobedient daughter Bruennhilde, to punish her. 414-416
The Valkyrie: Act Three 417-460
The Valkyrie: Act Three, Scene One 417-428
[V.3.1] Bruennhilde's rocky peak: the Valkyries, Bruennhilde, and Sieglinde 417-428
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[V.3.1: A] (#91) (#77 & #78) Bruennhilde's Valkyrie sisters gather fallen heroes to serve Wotan in Valhalla. The Valkyries refuse Bruennhilde’s appeal for aid for Sieglinde. 417-421
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[V.3.1: B] Sieglinde wishes to join Siegmund in death until Bruennhilde announces Sieglinde is with child. Bruennhilde: Sieglinde, run to Fafner’s forest, where Wotan never treads, to save your unborn child. 422-424
