It is also spelled as "Kriss Kringle". How is the term related to gift exchange? It comes from the name of gift-bringer ChristKind diminutive Christkindl but how come it is used in Canada and Australia when there is "Santa" out there?
Webster's Dictionary traces "Kris Kringle" back to the German "Kristkindl" meaning "Christ Child" and indicates the first documented use in English was The Roman celebration was so popular among the common folk that they undermined Luther's prohibition with a touch of syncretism. The Christ Child and Saint Nick the patron of merchants and children still share the holiday today!
Santa Claus is a phonetic variant of Saint Nicholas. As the patron saint of merchants and children, the church encouraged the blessing of these two groups during his holiday. Buying gifts is a practical blessing for merchants and giving gifts is a practical blessing on children. The name Kris Kringle is a recognized substitute for Santa Claus in the United States, but in many other countries they are distinctly separate characters. I was born and raised in Munchen, Germany.
There in the 40''s and 50's we celebrated St. Nicholas Day on the 6th of December. Kriskindle Christchild brought presents o n Christmas Eve. This is [a] very neat and beautiful volume of stories, illustrated with numerous cuts, intended, and well adapted for a Christmas present to good boys and girls.
We have no hesitation in recommending this as an elegant Christmas present. Kriss Kringle's Book. A new edition of this popular juvenile annual is out, and expectation on the part of the young people beats high. Some thousands of this beautifully ornamented volume, with its gilded covers and coloured picture will find their way into the stockings hung up in chimney corners in anticipation of Kriss Kringle's annual visit.
The moral tone of the stories is as commendable as the beauty of the execution. The earliest mention that Elephind and Library of Congress uncover for "Kriss Kringle" apart from the book of that name is from " Christmas " in the [Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania] Jeffersonian Republican December 28, :.
Christmas has come and passed; and we believe was never more generously observed before. Notwithstanding the hardness of the times, every body most, seemed to be joyful and merry.
The little folks set their plates and hats on Saturday evening, and after passing an unquiet night, got up the next morning to find that St.
Nicholas, or Kriss Kringle , as he or she is called, had supplied them most bounteously with all kind of nick-nacks. Their seniors provided themselves with venison, turkeys, geese, chickens, or whatever else good came in their way, and fared sumptuously on Sunday and Monday.
Many a heavy heart grew light, and many a heavy purse grew lighter, amid the purchases of that evening. Gifts there were for parents, sisters, brother, and friends, and there too were toys for the little ones who were fast asleep at home, with their stockings hung in the chimney awaiting the visit of Kriss Kringle. Many a young dreamer that night saw their welcome visitor descend the chimney with his wallet of toys, and many a listening ear heard 'the tramping' of his tiny steeds 'upon the roof.
And from " Poetical Prose ," originally published on January 1, in the St. Home and its sweet graces—children's faces; smiles and joy, and old Kriss Kringle ; laugh and shout; hark, how they mingle?
Their daughter now spoke. I know my lesson, I love you, mother, and my brother dearly, and do whatever I am told. Recent examinations of Santa Claus in U. Phyllis Siefker, Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men: The Origins and Evolution of Saint Nicholas, Spanning 50, traces the evolution of the Germanic gift-bearing folktale figure Pelznichol to Bellsnickle, and his gifts from Grisht-kindle "the word for Bellsnickle's gifts among the Pennsylvania Dutch" to Kriss Kringle the personification of those gifts and their giver.
Siefker writes:. In the s the German gift-giver enjoyed wider exposure when he found his way into print as Kriss Kringle and Bellsnickle. In , a popular book, Kriss Kringle's Christmas Tree , was published. The effect of these publications was that by the midds the German Christmas man had ventured out from his ethnic community to win the hearts of children everywhere.
Following is a passage about three very early published references to antecedents of "Kris Kringle":. The earliest printed use we have been able to find for the term Christ-kindle" is from the York [Pennsylvania] Gazette of December 23, In a humorous entry the Society of Bachelors of York announce their intention of "fixing a Krischtkintle Bauhm" which is to say a "Christ-kindle tree. John F. Watson in his Annals of Philadelphia writes "Every father in his turn remembers the excitements of his youth in Belsh-nichel and Christ-kinkle nights.
This last quotation appears in " Christmas: Addressed to the Philadelphians by a Fellow-Citizen " in The Gentleman's Magazine December , in which "Christkingle" is credited with filling "vast stockings duly forked up over the chimney the preceding Christmas eve" with "treasures. One interesting reference in that book is to an entry from December 24, in a journal kept by a Morgantown, Pennsylvania shopkeeper named James Morris:. An early etymological comment appears in a letter to the editor of the Miners' Journal and Pottsville [Pennsylvania] General Advisor January 9, [also cited by Shoemaker]:.
In conclusion let me say to you, that I have lately seen a very frequent reference to the Krist Kringle and his frequent visits. Now my dear Sir, I beg leave to say to you, that I am really astonished that a gentleman who possesses so much knowledge of German as I know you do, did not once discover that Krist Kringle is an unwarrantable change of the word Christkindlein , which is one of the beautiful compounds in which the German language abounds, meaning the "Little Child Jesus.
The figure of Kris Kringle has lurked in German American folklore since the early s, but the name "Kris Kringle" has had many antecedents, including Christ-kindel , Christ-kinkle , Krischtkintle , Christkingle , Chryskingle , Grisht-kindle , kriskinckles , Kriss Kringle , and Krist Kringle. It seems highly probable that "Kris Kringle" owes its preeminence among the various spelling options to the "Kriss Kringle" books of the s and after, since there certainly was no widespread agreement before as to the spelling of the gift-bringer's name.
The word Cringle is a Norse name descriptive of a shape. A Cringle was also a soldiers name. They formed the circle that moved quickly towards the enemy lines. Then they would break up and run swiftly in a zig zag pattern Cringle towards the enemy. Kringle is the one and only Santa Claus. Well, sorry, Mr. Kringle , but today's not your day. Kringle is Santa Claus! Is Mr. Kringle sad now, Mother? Kringle seems to be a nice old man, and I don't see why you have to keep persecuting him.
Gailey, are you prepared to show that Mr. Kringle is Santa Claus Load 'em with all that Santa Claus mail Kringle down at the courthouse. Not the one Mr. Kringle was going to get for me. Kringle , you don't have to answer any questions against your wishes All these complicated tests and reports boil down to this. Kringle is not sane because he believes himself to be Santa Claus. Now, Mr. Kringle is incapable of either. But this is my house, Mommy- the one I asked Mr.
Kringle for. Yet these letters have just now been delivered to Mr. Possibly inappropriate content Unlock.
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