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A tomtenisse made of salt dough.A common Scandinavian Christmas decoration, 2004. Modern vision of a nisse, 2007. A nisse (Danish:, Norwegian: [ˈnɪ̂sːə]), tomte (Swedish: [ˈtɔ̂mːtɛ]), tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish:) is a household spirit from Nordic folklore which has always been described as a small human-like creature wearing a red cap and gray clothing, doing house and stable ...
The Finnish tonttu and the Swedish tomte are related to the words tontti (Finnish) and tomt (Swedish), which both mean building lot and building site. (Later, such local spirits are also referred to as a tomtegubbe ["old man of the homestead"] in Swedish). The kotihaltija (home elf, home gnome) is the tonttu who lives in every home.
Elf Toljander (Finnish: Tonttu Toljanteri) is a Finnish Christmas themed television show for children that was broadcast by Yle TV2. It was first presented in 1998. Yle TV2 made new episodes in 1999, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2013. One episode is about 5–15 minutes long, depending on the year. A CD titled "Kukahan se kaikki keinot keksii?"
Finnish mythology commonly refers of the folklore of Finnish paganism, of which a modern revival is practiced by a small percentage of the Finnish people. It has many shared features with Estonian and other Finnic mythologies, but also with neighbouring Baltic , Slavic and, to a lesser extent, Norse mythologies.
Since Asda released a Christmas advert starring a gang of gnomes, searches for them on the supermarket’s website have shot up by 5,425 per cent. “Once people began listing the gnomes on sites ...
Eastern Finnish folklore is often characterized by its Russian influences, such as the presence of tales about bogatyrs and other Russian folk heroes. Western Finnish folklore, on the other hand, is more closely related to the folklore of Sweden, with tales about trolls, elves, and other creatures from Scandinavian mythology. [5]
Tourism is booming in the Finnish town of Rovaniemi, known as the home of Santa Claus. However, not everyone is happy about the onslaught of Christmas visitors. Overtourism has hit Santa’s ...
“The Night Before Christmas” originally identified eight reindeer that lead Santa Claus’ sleigh every holiday. And while the poem gendered the reindeer as males, biology tells us that couldn ...