Day 22- Name all nine reindeer without using a search engine.

[strange_complex]

Er... Donner, Blitzen, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Rudolph...

Dammit, I have eight but cannot get the ninth!

Oh well, that's a pretty good head start for anyone else doing this meme today.

Christmas kisses for anyone who can tell me the ninth in a comment while likewise respecting the 'no search engines' rule.

(They're a very weird set of names anyway, aren't they? When I have pressed 'post' on this entry and can look at search engines again I am going to search out where the hell 'Donner' and 'Blitzen' in particular even come from. Crazy mid-nineteenth century clerics!)

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Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Actually, my memory of the names does basically come from that poem, but I don't know it well enough to quote it precisely - hence missing Vixen, of course. I just have a sketchy general impression of the sorts of names which crop up in those lines. Interestingly, though, I did know that Donner and Blitzen came last, which is why those were the first two names that sprang to mind. They leave a strong lasting impression as a rising climax of the couplet.