1894 Brewer’s / R / Rhine or Rhineland
The country of Gunther, King of Burgundy, is so called in the Nibelungen-Lied.
“Not a lord of Rhineland could follow where he flew.”
Lettsom’s Nibelungen-Lied, st. 210.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.