My mom says it's Donner and my aunt says it's Donder!! Help me please!!!
2006-12-22 16:59:09 · 15 answers · asked by sailor_spice123 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
in the early versions of the "Night Before Christmas" and Christmas story books -- the Name was DONDER ....
2006-12-22 19:29:16 · answer #1 · answered by sglmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Donder. In the original poem, the Night Before Christmas, in which the story of the reindeer was invented, two of the reindeer were named Donder and Blitzen - that is, Thunder and Lightening in German. However, for some reason the original name has been bastardized and what you see mostly these days is 'Donner'.
2006-12-22 17:04:02 · answer #2 · answered by jane7 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Donner
2006-12-23 00:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by myangel_101211 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though "Donner" means thunder, the reindeer is called "Donder."
An American Anthology, 1787–1900, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed., reprints the Moore version of the poem, including the German spelling of "Donder and Blitzen" he adopted, rather than the earlier Dutch version from 1823, "Dunder and Blixem". (Both phrases translate as "Thunder and Lightning" in English, though the German word for thunder is actually "Donner", and the Dutch words would nowadays be "Donder en Bliksem")
2006-12-22 17:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by Pythonette 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Donner
2006-12-22 17:12:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Donner
2006-12-22 17:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by tooqerq 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Donner
2006-12-22 17:03:19 · answer #7 · answered by Lisa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of my life I have thought it was Donner, also. I have read, however that it is Donder.
2006-12-23 07:55:35 · answer #8 · answered by kayboff 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Donder
2006-12-23 00:36:11 · answer #9 · answered by :) 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Donner.
2006-12-22 17:12:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually "Donner" means thunder in german...not donder. The answer is donner.
2006-12-22 17:06:23 · answer #11 · answered by .o0O O0o. 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋