Santa's Reindeer

Wow... I finally did good. Got them all in 10 seconds. I guess it pays to have a 2 year old!

Oops... of course I meant that I did well.

I would have done better but I used the "Night Before Christmas" spelling.

In the original english translation it is Donder not Donner.

In the original Dutch it was even odder. It was Dunder and Blixem.

I also tried "Donder" and then realized it wouldn't take it. It took me a minute and a half because I didn't realize I needed to type RUDOLPH!! I was thinking of the "Night Before Christmas" and Rudolph isn't in that.

7 seconds. Thanks Gene Autry.

I started typing before the clock started, so my 3 seconds doesn't count I'm sure. :-D

14 seconds... and I thought I did pretty well, until I see 10 and 7 and 3...

I'm with Casie... Gene Autry got me through this one.

Fun quiz! Took me about a minute.

Took me a minute, too. You have to remember that the one reindeer was in the Donner party.

It's Donder, not Donner. Donder and Blitzen=Thunder and Lightening. Donner is a bunch of unlucky pioneers.

They also forgot Olive (the other reindeer) and (out with) Glee ;-)

donner slowed me down, thought it was donder or dunder

The old German for Thunder was Donner. The change to Dunder for the poem was probably to bring it more in line with the English.

And how many people were typing in "Blixem"? As that is the actual spelling used in the poem - very likely to help the awkward rhyme for "Vixen"

Donner and Blitzen means thunder and lightning in German. Donder or Dunder is Dutch, lightning in Dutch is Bliksem so it was probably the German that was originally used before Moore, ahem, published it.

Google: Charles Fenno Hoffman for more on the 7 year publishing gap.