Small Reindeer – Coloured

Small Reindeer – Coloured

This Small Reindeer – Coloured   is  a must for any garden

In traditional lore, Santa Claus’s sleigh is led by eight reindeer: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder (variously spelled Dunder and Donner) and Blitzen (variously spelled Blixen and Blixem).

However he enduring popularity of the 1949 Christmas song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has led to Rudolph often joining the list, bringing the number of Santa Claus’s reindeer up to nine.

The first reference to Santa’s sleigh being pulled by a reindeer appears in “Old Santeclaus with Much Delight“, an 1821 illustrated children’s poem published in New York.

Though the names of the author and the illustrator are not known.

The poem, with eight colored lithographic illustrations, was published by William B. Gilley as a small paperback book entitled The Children’s Friend: A New-Year’s Present, to the Little Ones from Five to Twelve.

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