Sigurd chooses to accept the psychoactive beer Brynhild offers him, and in so doing, he chooses to accept Odin, he chooses to accept Knowledge itself, to accept, he chooses to “have” the terrible things that will happen to him and to her, to “have” his own life, and to “have” her. These are all different sides of the same choice. This is also the same choice Oidipous made, but whereas Oidipous chooses alone and remains alone. Sigurd must choose alone-- because Brynhild does not understand the enormity of the choice he must make-- but accepting her as a woman is part of the choice he makes. As he accepts Knowledge, as he accepts her, he accepts the unknown world outside his own thoughts and his own will, although he knows that world will kill him. He knows that he and Brynhild will both be utterly crushed and defeated, and that she will be forced to murder him. In spite of knowing all this, he will have her, “for all of my life.”