Draʹchenfels (Dragon-rocks).
So called from the legendary dragon killed there by Siegfried, the hero of the Nibelungen-Lied.
“The castled crag of Drachenfels
Frowns oʹer the wide and winding Rhine,
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Byron: Childe Harold, iii. 55.
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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.