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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 ...
Named by soldiers of German origin, the Donner und Blitzen River translates as "thunder and lightning". [8] The name usually brings to mind two of Santa Claus's reindeer , [ 9 ] but the river is named for a thunderstorm the soldiers experienced as they crossed the river; [ 2 ] dry lightning is an almost daily occurrence in the region during ...
Donner and Blitzen's names actually come from the Dutch words "Dunder and Blixem," which mean, respectively, "thunder" and "lightning." As such, Donner and Blitzen are interpreted to be strong and ...
On, Donner and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! ... Question: The reindeer names "Donner and Blitzen" are based on words meaning what?
Donner and Blitzen — sometimes written as Dunder and Blixem — come from the German phrase for thunder and lightning. These are the eight original reindeer as they appeared in Clement Moore’s ...
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) Robbie (son in Robbie the ...
The song had an added introduction, paraphrasing the poem "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" (in the public domain by the time the song was written), stating the names of the eight reindeer: "You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen! But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?"
The reindeer were also named: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder and Blixem (Dunder and Blixem came from the old Dutch words for thunder and lightning, which were later changed to the more German sounding Donner and Blitzen). [29]