The action moves to a forest setting, and forward to the time of Siegfried's youth he, unwitting, is the offspring of Siegmund and Sieglinde, and grandson of Wotan. The Nibelung dwarf Mime ...
Son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, raised by the dwarf Mime after Sieglinde dies during his birth. As "he who does not know fear", he succeeds in reforging the sword Nothung where Mime has failed.