Ring of the Nibelungs Quotes

  • Brunnhild: Once I loved a man, who I thought the gods themselves had sent me. I loved the whole world because he was in it. Long we were parted but I could bear it because I knew he would return one day. But when he came again it was as if his heart had been wiped clean. I loved him as I had but he did not love me. We were strangers as before we had met.

  • Kriemhild: Once I loved a man who did not love me and I could not bear it if the world was to be a place without him. So when Hagen came to me with an unholy thing that would banish the memory of old loves and plant a new one there, I was blinded...

  • [last lines]

    Giselher: [as Brunnhild dies with Siegfried] Today the old gods live again.

    Lena: Today the old gods will die with them.

  • Eric: I don't like Saxons.

    Eyvind: I do... once in a while.

    Eric: Yeah, for sword practice.

  • Brunnhild: Perhaps I should pray that I too will remember our love so little, because I will never know joy again until I forget, or you remember.

  • Eric: The Christians say their god is all about forgiveness.

    Eyvind: The Christians... they're a strange lot.

Extended Reading
  • Kurt 2022-04-19 09:03:18

    New people laugh at old people and old gods also choose to self-exile

  • Kayley 2022-04-22 07:01:59

    08.8.23 When I watched TV this time, I found that I had seen the rental disc. Love becomes sadness, resentment becomes resentment, new and old things, where to say. There is only a broad axe, beheaded, and then sank with the body of the king. The temperament is angry, the fate is splendid, the view of the strike has been accepted, and then to the old events of yesterday.