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It describes Santa's sleigh being pulled by a team of eight reindeer, best known as Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. [note 1] [2] The popularity of the 1939 story "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", and the 1949 Christmas song of the same name, has resulted in Rudolph often being included among the team.
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 ...
The legendary names are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and (drum roll) Rudolph. Donner is variously spelled Dunder and Donder, and Blitzen is also spelled Blixen ...
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?"
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has a song called "Donner and Blitzen": Related: Now Dasher, Now Dancer, Now Prancer and Vixen! 10 Magical Reindeer Food Recipes
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]
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)
There's Comet, there's Cupid, there's Donner and Blitzen! Without these magical, flying friends, St. Nick would have no way of getting his super-packed sleigh from housetop to housetop the night ...