How Did the Nordic Countries Kidnap Santa Claus? (part 2)

But these countries were open enough to the world to understand the importance of the character created by New Yorkers, to the point of kidnapping him! In a delightful moment of geographic determinism for the benefit of folklore populations, a Finnish children’s radio show in 1927 decreed that Santa Claus could not live at the North Pole, as he would be unable to feed his reindeer there. Therefore, his residence was in Lapland, at Korvatunturi (Ear Mountain, 483m).

Text Translated from french version by Gilles Fumey

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