Comments on: Rudolph, and Santa’s 27 Other Reindeer

By: Sara in Al

Sara in Al — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:01:09 +0000

Santa’s stables must be HUGE!
In all of the pictures of Santa and his reindeer, all of his reindeer have antlers in winter. Only female reindeer keep their antlers year round, so they must all be female.

By: brschro

brschro — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:46:01 +0000

Ok, so if all the comments are correct and we count all these reindeer (but not the donkey), that brings us up to 63!!! Definitely enough for all exigencies, contingencies and other situations :-D

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:18:04 +0000

There are 8 reindeer in Jan Brett’s book The Wild Christmas Reindeer named Bramble, Heather, Windswept, Lichen, Snowball, Crag, Twilight, and Tundra. Now THOSE are reindeer names. The only thing that would improve on that is if they were written in Davvisámegiella (what the northern Sami people speak).

By: Penny

Penny — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:18:55 +0000

In L. Frank Baum’s excellent “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus,” we learn that the first reindeer were named Flossie and Glossie, with eight others added later. They were Racer and Pacer, Reckless and Speckless, Fearless and Peerless, and Ready and Steady. The 1902 book gives all the particulars about their history, as well as Santa’s origin.

By: Anah

Anah — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:34:01 +0000

LOL. I too remember singing Pablo the Reindeer from Mexico. It was in the early 70′s! I still remember most of it and had a blast singing it all those many years ago! Happy Holidays!

By: MH

MH — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:02:08 +0000

How ’bout Pablo? When I was little, we learned a song in chorus one year called “Pablo the Reindeer from Mexico” — I still remember bits of it.

By: LO

LO — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:02:22 +0000

I’ve heard so many people lately correcting everyone that it’s Donder not Donner. :) Donder and Blitzen translate (I’ve heard) to Thunder and Lightning in German, which makes sense when paired together in the poem.

By: Wow Billa

Wow Billa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:43:57 +0000

Bonne Noel 2009. Be happy constantly on earth and grateful to Him who always prompty rescue us at the last moment!

By: arfies

arfies — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:19:00 +0000

In elementary school, we had to sing a song called “Pablo, The Mexican Reindeer:”

“When Santa goes to Mexico
He takes a reindeer named Pablo
Pablo can sing and dance and play
He leads the reindeer all the way…”

By: steph

steph — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:33:00 +0000

When my brother and I were very young, we’d leave cookies for Santa and an apple or carrot for Rudolph. By the time we were 6 and 7, we thought that was unfair to the rest of the reindeer. So we decided to make them a salt-lick, having read that deer liked salt-licks. We didn’t know what a salt-lick looked like, but improvised with an entire canister of Morton’s poured all over the front steps. That’s what our parents got for signing us up for National Geographic youth science books.