the bird flies off to show Siegfried the way. The Wanderer (Wotan) summons Erda the Earth-Goddess (and mother of Brünnhilde and the Valkyries) to ask her advice in slowing down the world's ...

Wotan in another of his guises. At Brünnhilde's rock he meets his grandson Siegfried who, not recognising him, mocks him and breaks his spear with a blow from Nothung. An inhabitant of the great ...