Closing Scene (Gotterdammerung)
The Closing Scene of The Dusk of the Gods is also the end of The Ring Cycle. The body of Siegfried has been set upon a funeral pyre at Brünnhilde's behest. She now calls for her horse, Grane, and pronounces Siegfried's epitaph and the doom of the gods. She takes the Ring from Siegfried's finger and places it on her own, then seizes a torch and fires the logs. Mounting her horse, she leaps with him into the flames.
As the fire blazes and spreads to the Hall itself the Rhine overflows its banks, bringing with it the Rhine Maidens who have come for the Ring. Hagen attempts to seize it from them, and is drawn by them into the flood. Meanwhile, the flames seem to have spread to the heavens, and have reached even the distant Castle of Valhalla, where Wotan with the gods seated round him is seen surrounded by the flames which destroy them all. The ' Curse ' has been fulfilled.
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