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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: which concludes it, in which Siegfried actually robs Brynhild of
her ring, though he has no recollection of having given it to
her. Night Falls On The Gods, in fact, was not even revised into
any real coherence with the world-poem which sprang from it; and
that is the authentic solution of all the controversies which
have arisen over it.
The Third Act
The hunting party comes off duly. Siegfried strays from it and
meets the Rhine maidens, who almost succeed in coaxing the ring
from him. He pretends to be afraid of his wife; and they chaff
him as to her beating him and so forth; but when they add that
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