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Nine years later, the first known association between reindeer and Santa Claus appeared in an anonymous poem entitled “A New Year’s Present”. The unnamed deer are mentioned briefly and only ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. 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 Western festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa ...
Reindeer tend to only have one baby at a time. ... Canada has the second-largest herd with an average of 200,000 reindeer. The number of reindeer in the wild is rapidly dwindling, and the species ...
You know Rudolph, but how many reindeer does Santa have? Here's a complete list, including Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.
The poem, with eight colored engraved illustrations, was published in New York by William B. Gilley in 1821 as a small paperback book entitled The Children's Friend: A New-Year's Present, to the Little Ones from Five to Twelve. [1] The names of the author and the illustrator are not known. [2]
Articles relating to Santa Claus's reindeer. The first eight reindeer are based on those used in the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (commonly knowwn as The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Clarke Moore.
In 1939, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was introduced, making him Santa's ninth reindeer. However, in 1902, L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus boasts 10 reindeer.
(In the film Santa Claus: The Movie, the arrangement is reversed, with Donner and Blixem/Blitzen (Claus' two reindeer from his mortal life) in the lead.) †The last two reindeer names were 'Donner' and Blixem when the poem was first published anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinel on 1823-12-23.[2]