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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: promised to deliver him from his contract, and to cheat the
giants for him; but he has not arrived to keep his word: indeed,
as Fricka bitterly points out, why should not the Lie fail Wotan,
since such failure is the very essence of him?
The giants come soon enough; and Freia flies to Wotan for
protection against them. Their purposes are quite honest; and
they have no doubt of the god's faith. There stands their part of
the contract fulfilled, stone on stone, port and pinnacle all
faithfully finished from Wotan's design by their mighty labor.
They have come undoubtingly for their agreed wage. Then there
happens what is to them an incredible, inconceivable thing. The
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