Three Norns spin on the rope of fate, describe past, present and future: silly ego robbery of gold of the Rhine, the curse of the ring, Wotan's own Constitution by cutting his contract spear from the Interior, her wither, their precipitation, Siegfried's encounter with Wotan. But pulls the rope of fate, the Norns flee Erda down to her mother.
Goodbye Siegfried from Brünnhilde the Valkyrie rock and provided it with protective runes; as a pledge of love, her Siegfried can be der Ring des Nibelungen.