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bringing gifts to the children.
After dinner, the
children await the
Jultomten or
Julenisse to
arrive (on a julbok-drawn sleigh), then ask them "Are...
- by the
Christmas goat (Julbocken) or,
especially later,
Santa Claus (
Jultomten). The
Christmas celebrations in
Sweden usually starts with the
first Advent...
-
recordings were the
dansband record Lokets favoriter and the
single "Vart tog
jultomten vägen?" ("Where Did
Santa Claus go?"),
which sold 250,000 copies. Olsson...
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Kring julgranen, also
known as Nu så är det jul igen,
jultomten myser, is a
Christmas song
written by
Alice Tegnér, and
originally published in 1899 in...
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Finland Joulupukki,
Denmark Julemanden,
Norway Julenissen and
Sweden Jultomten,
personally meets children and
gives presents in the
evening of Christmas...
-
Following the work of
Jenny Nyström, this
hybrid figure became known as
Jultomten. In the
United States, Canada,
Great Britain, and Ireland, the modern...
- it's not made
clear whether the main
character is
Santa Claus (Swedish:
jultomten) (or one of his elves) or the old
traditional "tomte". Lek med toner,...
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Slavic Father Christmas,
English Joulupukki,
Finnish Julemanden,
Danish Jultomten,
Swedish Mikulás,
Hungarian Olentzero,
Basque Père Noël,
French Sinterklaas...
- (1901–1991). In 1894
Beskow started to
contribute to the children's
magazine Jultomten. She
ultimately began publishing her own books,
doing both illustration...
- and
genre scenes. Her
illustrations were
often featured in the
magazine Jultomten [sv] (Santa Claus). Her father, Carl
Henrik Rydberg (1820-1902) was a...
