Minimanta wrote:Louhi wrote:Minimanta wrote:*Squee* Tomtes!! <3
I know people call them gnomes, but they have to be tomtes/nisser.
They're very similar mythological beings but in Scandinavia tomtes or nisser are related to yule (Christmas) while gnomes are more general forest or garden creatures.
I love em, gotta love those cheeky little things <3
I think too that they are tomtenisse or tonttu (in finnish). They are very similar to christmas elf, because they also work with santa claus but they do other things too and not just work with santa. They for example can live in barn (then they are barntomtes/tallitonttu) or in house (which we call hometomte/kotitonttu)
Yeah, exactly! And they're super common christmas decorations here, I even have a figurine that looks almost exactly like these hammies
omg when i saw them for the first time i KNEW they had to be tomtes! my mormor sends me and my siblings a tomte figure every year around christmas so our basement is full of them. all of them come out for christmas ;u; i knew i immediately had to start of hoard of them
