Volume 9 / Act 2 — SCENE V
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Enter the CHAPLAIN.
CHAPLAIN (advances).
Your pardon, noble sir, Has Brunhild been baptized?
SIEGFRIED.
She is baptized.
CHAPLAIN.
Then 'tis a Christian land from which she comes?
SIEGFRIED.
They fear the cross.
CHAPLAIN (steps back again).
Perchance 'tis there as here! Where men will place it next to Wotan's tree Right gladly, for they do not surely know If magic may not dwell there; as we see Devoutest Christians hesitate to break A heathen image, for some remnant still Awakes within them of the olden fear Before those staring eyes.