nisse

• “Not a lepechaun, he's a "nisse" It is very possible that the bin is pulled as it contains all the P-Farster's personal belongings.”

  Penny-Ante: The Ordinary Trend Moves Up a Notch

• “And that's an American Santa Claus, in Norway where we speak Norwegian, which is similar to Swedish but not quite, the "nisse" lives all around us all the time, and don't just pop in around Christmas time.”

  Holiday cheer

• “And there will even be a picture of the elusive mr Miles of Melbourne, even if he is turning his back to the camera and does a good "nisse" impersonation.”

  Archive 2001-12-01

• “Fjosnisse barn "nisse", who may turn grumpy if the children forget to leave a bowl of porridge.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “Fjosnisse (barn "nisse"), who may turn grumpy if the children forget to leave a bowl of porridge.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “I alwees thawt it wud be nisse to run a B&B wehre I cud offur teh obernite guessts teh opshun of aroom “wif kitteh furr” oar “wiffout kitteh furrs.””

  did not - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “I recall a picture I saw as a child, in a fairy tale book -- a log laid over a stone, and half a dozen of them playing teeter-totter with a nisse but not weighing enough to counterbalance him.”

  Operation Luna

• “Some were everyday, like arguments about whether or not a bowl of milk set out for a Scandinavian nisse who did housework after dark constituted minimum wage ¦ It went on.”

  Operation Luna

• ““Die Entwicklung der klinischen Thermometrie,” Ergeb - nisse der inneren Medizin und Kinderheilkunde, 33 (1928),”

  HEALTH AND DISEASE

• “There were giants from Norway and trolls from Sweden; there were dwarfs and elves from the mines of Cornwall and fairies from the hills of Ireland; there were brownies from Scotland and goblins from Germany; the Yule nisse and the skrattle from Denmark; and fairy godmothers from everywhere.”

  This Way to Christmas

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