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Actually if you do the research you'll find it is donder not donner in
the poem.

"Donder" is the Dutch word for thunder, "Donner" the German word.
And the reindeer the Americans know today as Santa's reindeer, aren't
they also creation of the vivid imagination of someone at Coca-Cola's
marketing department?

Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem, which he named "A Visit From St.
Nicholas," was published for the first time on December 23, 1823 by a New
York newspaper, the Sentinel

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