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Question: The reindeer names "Donner and Blitzen" are based on words meaning what? Answer: "Thunder" and "lightning" Question: ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. Legendary sleigh-pulling flying reindeer A parade float with a model of Santa's reindeer and sleigh in the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, 2009 In traditional festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus ...
Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus, are familiar hoofed animals that live in cold climates near the North Pole. In many societies, children learn about reindeer from a very early age. This is true even ...
The Red Nosed Reindeer: Family: Donner and Mrs. Donner (parents in 1964 TV special) Blitzen (father in 1998 film) Mitzi (mother in 1998 film) Rusty (brother in Holidaze) Arrow (cousin in 1998 film) Comet, Cupid and Dasher (uncles in 1998 film) Leroy, the Redneck Reindeer (cousin from the Joe Diffie song of the same name, on the album Mr. Christmas)
An 1886 depiction of Odin by Georg von Rosen.. Santa Claus's reindeer has also been compared to Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse of Odin in Norse mythology. [3]Jacob Grimm (Deutsche Mythologie) traces the threatening or scary companions of Saint Nicholas (such as the Krampus of the Austro-Bavarian dialect region) to Christianized versions of household spirits (kobolds, elves).
Rudolph boasts "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Run Rudolph Run," but other reindeer have songs too! Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has a song called "Donner and Blitzen":
Donner (surname) Donner family, a renowned and wealthy Finland-Swedish family; Donner the Reindeer or Donder, one of Santa Claus's reindeer; Donner woodrush or Luzula subcongesta; Donner, a character in Artist Descending a Staircase; Donner, a superheroine in Milestone Media comic books; Donner, the German name for Thor, a god in Norse mythology
According to the ADFG, although both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer, male reindeer will drop their antlers at the end of fall or beginning of winter, usually in late November ...