On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:50:30 +0100, Jim Breckenridge wrote
(in message atTvk.145832$nD.100899@pd7urf1no):

Two of his reindeer are named Donner and Blitzen.

Actually if you do the research you'll find it is donder not donner in
the poem.

Having now done the research (or at least a Google search which is
surely what passes for research in this day and age), I find that
the names have in fact varied, from Dunder and Bliksem through
Donder and Blitzen to Donner and Blitzen

I also discovered that there is another reindeer who is not
mentioned in the poem but appears in a familiar song - Olive, the
other reindeer.

On-topic, because the sleigh is an animal-powered flying machine.

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