Siegfried wore the Tarnkappe to perform the bridal contests invisibly in Gunther's place, winning Brunhild through deception, then donned it again on the wedding night to subdue her supernatural strength — taking her ring and belt as trophies that would later betray the fraud.
Alberich wields the Tarnkappe, a magical cloak granting its wearer the strength of twelve men and the power of invisibility, which he uses in his desperate fight against Siegfried before the hero wrests it from him along with the Nibelungen hoard.
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