Ring of the Nibelungs

Brunnhild:
Once I loved a man, who I thought the gods themselves had sent me. I loved the whole world because he was in it. Long we were parted but I could bear it because I knew he would return one day. But when he came again it was as if his heart had been wiped clean. I loved him as I had but he did not love me. We were strangers as before we had met.

Kriemhild:
Once I loved a man who did not love me and I could not bear it if the world was to be a place without him. So when Hagen came to me with an unholy thing that would banish the memory of old loves and plant a new one there, I was blinded...

[last lines]

Giselher:
[as Brunnhild dies with Siegfried] Today the old gods live again.

Lena:
Today the old gods will die with them.

Eric:
I don't like Saxons.

Eyvind:
I do... once in a while.

Eric:
Yeah, for sword practice.

Brunnhild:
Perhaps I should pray that I too will remember our love so little, because I will never know joy again until I forget, or you remember.

Eric:
The Christians say their god is all about forgiveness.

Eyvind:
The Christians... they're a strange lot.

Brunnhild. (Sighs***) Ah my Love, So Near to my heart, and my mind. Yet So Far from my Arms and My Body.

How Much Longer? How much Farther?