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Julekalendre i danmark: pyrus med julens historie

The modern Tomte-edit In the 1840s the farm's "nisse" became the bearer of Christmas presents in Denmark, and was then called julenisse (Yule Nisse). In 1881, the Swedish magazine Ny Illustrerad Tidning published Viktor Rydberg's poem Tomten, where the tomte is alone awake in the cold Christmas night, pondering the mysteries of life and death. This poem featured the first painting by Jenny Nyström of this traditional Swedish mythical character which she turned into the white-bearded, red-capped friendly figure associated with Christmas ever since. Shortly afterwards, and obviously influenced by the emerging Father Christmas traditions as well as the new Danish tradition called Julemanden (definite article - The Christmas Man), a variant of the tomte/nisse, called the jultomte in Sweden and julenisse in Norway, started bringing the Christmas presents in Sweden and Norway, instead of the traditional julbock (Yule Goat).

Gradually, commercialism has made him look more and more like the American Santa Claus, but the Swedish jultomte, the Norwegian julenisse, the Danish Julemanden and the Finnish joulupukki (in Finland he is still called the "Yule Goat", although his animal features have disappeared) still has features and traditions that are rooted in the local culture. He doesn't live on the North Pole, but perhaps in a forest nearby, or in Denmark he lives on Greenland where nisserne (plural, definite article) help him, and in Finland he lives in Lapland; he doesn’t come down the chimney at night, but through the front door, delivering the presents directly to the children, just like the Yule Goat did; whether or not he is overweight varies; and even if he nowadays sometimes rides in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, instead of just walking around with his sack, his reindeer don’t fly - and in Sweden, Denmark and Norway some still put out a bowl of porridge for him on Christmas Eve. He is still often pictured on Christmas cards and house and garden decorations as the little man of Jenny Nyström's imagination, often with a horse or cat, or riding on a goat or in a sled pulled by a goat, and for many people the idea of the farm tomte still lives on, if only in the imagination and literature.

The use of the word tomte in Swedish is now somewhat ambiguous, but often when one speaks of jultomten (definite article) or tomten (definite article) one is referring to the more modern version, while if one speaks of tomtar (plural) or tomtarna (plural, definite article) one could also likely be referring to the more traditional tomtar. The traditional word tomte lives on in an idiom, referring to the human caretaker of a property (hustomten), as well as referring to someone in one's building who mysteriously does someone a favour, such as hanging up ones laundry. A person might also wish for a little hustomte to tidy up for them.

The use of the word nisse in Danish refers to an updated version of the traditional nisse, a small or small-ish creature inhabiting attics and making mischief during the Christmas month. A special Danish tradition is decoration with kravlenisser, meaning crawling nisser (plural, one rarely decorates with only one) Frederik Bramming og kravlenisser (http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kravlenisse / http://www.tegneseriemuseet.dk/Kravlenisser/kravlenisser.htm / http://www.tegneseriemuseet.dk/arkiv/bramming.htm) En lille nisse rejste (http://www.danskjul.dk/sang9.htm), på loftet sidder nissen med sin julegrød (http://www.duda.dk/Grundfag/Kristendom/Jul/julesange/paa_loftet_sidder_nissen/paa_loftet_sidder_nissen.html / pynt i staldvinduer), julebal i nisseland julekalendre (henvisning advent calender) + kort benævnelse af pyrus 2 sætternisen (typoes) (edit summery, tilføjelse af den danske moderne nisse, og tilrretelse af den danske moderne julemand)