When was donder changed to donner

Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen, On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem ;. In Johnny Marks turned the popular story of Rudolph, a misfit red-nosed reindeer created by his brother-in-law, Robert L. Fact Checks. The change in subsequent years to Donner and Blitzen has become the cause of an authorship controversy over the anonymous poem.

American poet and theology professor Clement C. Moore first took credit for the poem. In , a reprint of the poem cited him as the author. Here's why:. Moore reprinted the poem in an collection of works, in which he altered the last two reindeer names to Donder and Blitzen from the original Dunder and Blixem. The reprint changes "Blixem" to "Blitzen.

The change of "Dunder" to "Donder" was likely an error that Moore failed to notice when he reprinted the poem since he didn't speak Dutch. Eventually, "Donder" became "Donner," which is the German word for thunder. The eight original reindeer and Rudolph have become the accepted sleigh-pulling team for Mr. But popular culture is littered with additional reindeer. Here are some of the lesser-known ones:.

The 'South Park' backup squad -- In the episode, "Red Sleigh Down," Santa's sleigh is shot down with a rocket propelled grenade and his reindeer are killed. Shadrack, the Black Reindeer -- The black reindeer from Loretta Lynn's song was the fastest of all the reindeer. Leroy lives in the sticks, wears overalls and drives a pickup truck.

Olive -- In , Vivian Walsh and J. If you listen carefully to the singing cowboy's rendition of the Johnny Marks composition, you'll hear something like "Donner," with no second "d. Marks' brother-in-law, Johnny L. May, first penned the Rudolph poem, apparently without the roll call of fellow reindeer, for the Montgomery Ward department store, according to GeneAutry. It uses "Donder. Not to pollute one good argument with another, but some experts say the original poem was written by Henry Livingston Jr.

Jay Van Rein, a spokesman for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, said the feds will get the first crack at finding out, since Santa first must cross an international border. Nick's sleigh haulers will need to have embedded chips or ear tags and respond to their names, USDA says. So do a lot of other sources. Either way, if a fat old guy in a red suit driving a sled pulled by ungulates gets past NORAD, he probably will get by agricultural inspectors.

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