“The sturdy dwarf was powerless
against him in the fray.
Like lions wild to the mountain
they twain then broke away,
Till the Tarnhelm from Albrich
he wrested; and thus lord
Became the dreaded Siegfried
of all the Niblung hoard.
“The sturdy dwarf was powerless
against him in the fray.
Like lions wild to the mountain
they twain then broke away,
Till the Tarnhelm from Albrich
he wrested; and thus lord
Became the dreaded Siegfried
of all the Niblung hoard.