Mime and Alberich meet and quarrel, watching with horror as Siegfried emerges with the ring and Tarnhelm. As he sucks it clean, he finds himself able to understand the woodbird, which tells him to take the ring and Tarnhelm from the hoard. Siegfried kills the dragon when he pulls out his sword, his hand is splashed with blood.
He gives up and blows a call on his hunting horn, which wakens Fafner. Siegfried wonders about his mother and listens to the murmurs of the forest, in particular a bird, whose warbling he tries to imitate on a roughly improvised reed pipe.
Mime brings Siegfried to the spot, promising that here he will learn fear. The Wanderer summons Fafner, who rejects Alberich's offer to protect him from Siegfried in exchange for the ring. The Wanderer appears and, to Alberich's surprise, professes no interest in the ring, but warns him that Mime is bringing Siegfried to kill the dragon. Mime has to admit that his skill is unequal to the task of forging Nothung and Siegfried takes to the task himself, breaking all the rules of smithing, but succeeding, while Mime brews a potion he plans to administer to Siegfried when he has killed Fafner, so that he can kill him and seize the ring.ĭeep in the forest, near the entrance to Fafner's caveĪlberich waits near the cave, hoping that someone will kill the dragon and give him the chance to take possession once more of the ring. Mime realises that this is one lesson he has failed to teach Siegfried and tries vainly to make up this omission, but Siegfried is unmoved, even by the mention of the fearsome dragon. When the Wanderer demands a reciprocal question test, Mime is able to answer the first two questions but fails on the third: who will reforge Nothung? The Wanderer tells Mime that his head is forfeit, but he leaves it to be claimed by one who knows no fear. Mime knows he cannot forge the sword, but when the Wanderer (Wotan) appears and offers to answer any three questions on pain of forfeiting his head, Mime asks him only useless questions (about the races of dwarf, giants and gods).
THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON SYNOPSIS FREE
Siegfried demands that Mime reforge this sword and storms out, hoping he may soon be free of the dwarf. Refusing to believe that Mime is his father, Siegfried manages to extract from him the information that his mother, Sieglinde, had died giving birth to him, leaving the fragments of his father's sword, Nothung. Mime reproaches him with ingratitude, reminding him that he has brought him up from childhood. He easily breaks the latest sword on the anvil. Siegfried returns from the forest with a bear with which he terrifies Mime. Mime tries in vain to forge a sword strong enough for Siegfried to kill the dragon Fafner.
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