The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries V
Chapter 31
_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.