Crossword-Solution: SIEGMUND 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

His eye followed _Sieglinde_ about the stage like a satellite, and as she sat at the table listening to _Siegmund’s_ long narrative, it never left her.

Fervently she rose into the hardier feeling of action and daring, the pride in hero-strength and hero-blood, until in a splendid burst, tall and shining like a Victory, she christened him:— “Siegmund— So nenn ich dich!” Her impatience for the sword swelled with her anticipation of his act, and throwing her arms above her head, she fairly tore a sword out of the empty air for him, before _Nothung_ had left the tree.

Then comes the Volsung Siegmund, following his sister bride, who has fled into the mountains in a revulsion of horror at having allowed herself to bring her hero to shame.

How now can Brynhild, being what she is, choose her side freely in a conflict between this hero and the vassal of Fricka? By instinct she at once throws Wotan's command to the winds, and bids Siegmund nerve himself for the combat with Hunding, in which she pledges him the protection of her shield.

The fear against which Siegmund set his face like flint, and the woe which he wore down, are unknown to the son.