Who named Santa's reindeer?

Answer 1

The source that added eight individually-named reindeer to the then-nascent Santa Claus legend was the poem "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" (now more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas"), first published in 1823.

"A Visit from Saint Nicholas" made its first print appearance in New York's Troy Sentinel newspaper on 23 December 1823. The poem had been submitted anonymously, and over the next thirteen years it was reprinted without attribution in various newspapers, magazines, and almanacs. Eventually word spread that the poem had been penned by Clement Clarke Moore.an 1836 reprint of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" finally credited Moore, and the notion of Moore as the true author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" was cemented when he included in a volume of his own poetry published in 1844.

However, rumors have long persisted that "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" was written not by Moore, but by a different New Yorker of Dutch descent named Henry Livingston — a claim which regained prominence at the end of 2000 when scholar and textual analyst Donald W. Foster published a defense of Livingston as the true author.

Santa's eight reindeer were named as follows:
>>Dasher
>>Dancer
>>Prancer
>>Vixen
>>Comet
>>Cupid
>>Donner (was originally named Dunder)
>>Blitzen (was originally named Blixem)

How about Rudolph?
Rudolph was the creation of Robert L. May, in a 1938 for use in their Montgomery Ward department stores. He made a story of an underdog reindeer eith abnormal nose, which glows bright red. Original name ideas were Rollo and Reginaldwhich were rejected for being too cheerful and too British.

Originally dubious (with "red nose" being a referance to a drunkard), his department store is finally convinced when they see the animations of the lovable character. Mongomery Ward begins giving away the lyrical booklets for their christmas promotion to roaring success Over the course of the next 9 years, Mongomary Ward would distribute over 6 million copies of the story.

In 1949, May's bother in-law Johnny Marks turned the popular story of Rudolph into a song, and Gene Autry's recording of the tune became a smash hit that Christmas season. Such song was known by just about everyone in the country, and finally solidified the names of Santas, now nine, reindeer as: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen... and Rudolph.

How the reindeer were named is, as you can see, a long story, but the final answer is that most of us learnt the reindeer from "Rudolph the red nose Reindeer", performed by Gene Audrey, Written by Johnny Marks, adapted from a book by Robert Mays, based on a story by Clement Moore revised on a poem by Henry Livingston, based on a legend of Santa Clause.

All of Santa's reindeer are female and the only known flying reindeer in existance, believed to be given the power of flight by magic corn given to Kris Kringle by a great wizard. Through this magic corn, the reindeer's strength is increased to three times normal, their stamina in increased to infinity, and their hoofs can use the air as if it were solid ground. This means that the normal reindeer compliment of nine can pull a sleigh full of toys up to 13,500 pounds for an unlimited amount of time.☺

Answer 2

Reindeer Named

Answer 3

The eight named reindeer of Santa Claus first appeared in American literature in 1823, featured in the famous poem penned by Clement Clarke Moore entitled, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Prior to the appearance of this rhyme, legend had the jolly toy-bringer's sleigh pulled by one singular anonymous reindeer. By virtue of Moore's poem, Santa was gifted with eight reindeer: Dasher; Dancer; Prancer; Vixen; Comet; Cupid; Donder; and Blitzen. "

Answer 4

Santa named them but he told C. Moore what their names were

Answer 5

TClement Clarke Moore -T'was the night before Christmas.

Answer 6

It's really bad

Answer 7

Santa himself!!!!

Answer 8

whoever wrote the story

Answer 9

Was asking myself the same thing

Answer 10

good question!