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Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Holiday Trivia: Santa Claus
I'll spare you all on the talk about whether or not Santa is real, and whether or not he was really a priest. I'm going to explain the origins of the modern legend.
First of all, his name is Santa Claus. Santa means "saint" in a few different languages. So he's really just a Saint named Claus. But is his last name Claus? No. Even in context with the Santa Claus myth, his full name is Nicholas/Niclaus. Claus is short for Niclaus. So basically, his name is Saint Nicholas, translated to Santa Niclaus, shortened to Santa Claus.
Santa drives a sleigh with 8 "tiny" reindeer. I'm sure they're tiny when seen from far away, but that's beside the point. How long Santa has been using reindeer in his myth, I don't know. I do know that they were given their names in the early 1800s in a story known as "A Visit From Santa Claus" or "The Night Before Christmas." In the part of the poem where Santa calls out his reindeer, that was the first time they were refered to as Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Blixen/Blitzen.
What about that crazy Rudolph? Here's a St. Nick myth that's less than 100 years old. Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer was written in 1939 by Robert May. Originally a short story, it was rewritten by R. May's brother-in-law Johnny Marks as the popular Christmas song we all know and love. A TV special was made in 1964, and the rest if history. 50 year old history. Some of us have parents and grandparents older than the Rudolph myth.
I'm gonna see if I can work up some Channukah trivial info for later.
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