Sorry Steve you have lost me! There seem to be lots of strange notions on this thread (nothing new there). The trip by boat seems like a long way round to me - Cologne is 150 miles from the mouth of the Rhine - against the flow that could be a long haul. But then they probably were not in a hurry. Lots of hymns have imagery within them that don't necessarily have any basis in fact. And don't get me started on the "glorious" dead.
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