Besides the famous elves slaving away at the North Pole all year round, on the big night he can count on his famed reindeer. Over the years and across cultures the number and names, as well as ...

Reindeer comes from the Old Norse word hreindyri, which combines hreinn (the Old Norse name for the animal) and dyr (“deer”). Caribou is the Canadian French version of the Mi’kmaq word ...