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 | | Subject: The History behind the Reindeer Names Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:15 pm | |
| Reindeer Names; Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On Comet! On, Cupid! on Donner and Blixen. Nope, originally it was on Dunder and Blixem in the 1823 publication of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas". Dunder and Blixem was Dutch for Thunder and Lightning.
Blixem was changed to Blixen to rhyme with Vixem in 1837 by a Charle Hoffman and Dunder to Donder. Then when Clement Moore included the "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" in his 1844 book, he'd changed Blixen to the German word for Lightning "Blitzen". Then comes the Johnny Marks song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" who changed Donder to Donner, German for Thunder. | |
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