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I fly from here and float away, wafting along like the wind over the woodland – nevermore, Mime, (#71 Vari “Hero”, #57 Vari, or #92c?) to see you again! (He runs into the forest)”

 

Mime: (in the utmost fear) Stop! Stop! Where are you going? Hey! Siegfried! Siegfried! Hey! (#110 Varis and Fragments; #111 Varis and Fragments: He gazes in astonishment as Siegfried rushes away.)”

 

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[[#110]] Siegfried’s joyful feeling of emancipation from Mime and his abhorrent claims on Siegfried

Siegfried, having forced Mime to restore Siegfried’s lost heritage, the two pieces of Nothung, will now go forth from the forest and into the world with his newly re-forged sword.

(#110’s motival links, in any, not yet ascertained)

[See #109 for #110’s dramatic context]

 

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[[#111]] Siegfried’s declaration of independence from Mime

Commonly known as “Siegfried’s Mission” – the fact that #111, which expresses Siegfried’s alleged freedom from Mime and his claims, is derived from Mime’s Starling Song #105, to which Mime sang of all that Siegfried owes Mime, suggests that Siegfried is not as freed from his debt to Mime as Siegfried feels.

(#111 is based on Mime’s Starling Song #105; it is the basis for #127)

[See #109 for #111’s dramatic context]

 

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[[#112]] The First “Wanderer Motif”: Wotan accumulates a hoard of knowledge while wandering into and over the earth (Erda)

The god Wotan, Wagner’s metaphor for Feuerbach’s collective, historical, and religious man, gradually accumulates that very hoard of objective knowledge of the world (Erda), through historical experience, which will inevitably undermine man’s belief in the gods in the course of time

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