nisse

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The family also leave a carrot and mince pie out for Father Christmas, but also some Christmas porridge for the Nisse - the Norwegian version of Santa Claus.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2023

Cleo Nisse predicts Lama will be "a household name" within the next decade.

From BBC • May 3, 2022

Sebastian's promoters and agents, Kalle and Nisse Sauerland, described him as a "true gentleman and a sincere human being".

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2021

Who does not know—at least by name—the Nisse, the being whose waggeries almost all bear the stamp of good-humoured frolic?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

"You've seen them in all the shops—just ugly dolls of worsted—but mine are made like the Danish Nisse, the elves that the Danes use to decorate their Yuletide trees."

From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)