Brewer's: Rumolt

Gunther's chief cook.

Sore toiled the chief cook, Rumolt; ah! how his orders ran Among his understrappers! how many a pot and pan, How many a mighty cauldron rattled and rang again! They dressed a world of dishes for the expected train.

Lettsom's Nibelungen-Lied, stanza 800.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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