• @x00z
    link
    English
    31 month ago

    Interesting. I found it weird Santa looked so much like Saint Nicolas. Which we celebrate here.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      81 month ago

      The Dutch brought Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) to New Amsterdam, current day NYC, which has developed into Santa Claus as we know it know. Santa Claus is a phonetic derivation of Sinterklaas.

      Apparently he was depicted as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe and a green outfit in Washington Irving’s History of New York book, so maybe that’s where you got that idea from.

      Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus