This topic is purely to show my Christmas signature.

[voodoopenguin]

Little nissa made by my dear wife.

Paul

[SDGuy]

Edit - nevermind. Forgot I had the "do not show sigs" feature enabled...

[Gutenberg]

I think it's lovely. Are the hats crocheted or knitted?

[voodoopenguin]

Gutenberg wrote:
Are the hats crocheted or knitted?

All knitted.

Paul

[AlphaDog]

I, too, think they're adorable, but I've been off Googling, trying to figure out what "nissa" means. Can anybody help out?

It looks like the hats are knitted, but the resolution is pretty low, so I couldn't tell for sure.

[Gutenberg]

Neat! Wow, that's some close work. Good for her.

[iaJim]

De er Nisse! Nissemen. Nisse are little creatures that live in Scandinavia. They are known as mischief makers, and will play tricks on people. They frequently live in the barn with the cat. On Christmas eve, the Danes would be sure to take a bowl of rice pudding to them so they would not spoil Christmas with some sort of trick. In the morning, the pudding was always gone. Proof that the nisse did exist. (Remember the cat?)

Your wife did a nice job.

[AAA]

I was listening to a spanish language radio station on the way to church.
And I wonder about language.
Nissa
This program, I don't understand Spanish much, but did pick out the repeated use of the word Nephilim.
Wondered if there is any etymological relationship between the two?

I always thought in the weird stories, that the Scandinavians came from the giant aliens, and that is what Nephilim were... giants.

So, Nissa and Nephilim.

Both in one day.

Hmmmmm....

[voodoopenguin]

Nisse is the 'correct' way to spell the name but we use the alternative form. When my wife was young she was told about nisse by her Norwegian uncle and he said that when he was young he was told that you misspell their name to confuse the mischievous little beggers and we have carried that on. In modern times they are often depicted as being helpful to Santa but they were not always like that.

Paul

[AlphaDog]

Thanks for clarifying "nissa." I'm amazed that I've never heard of them, because for almost 25 years we lived within a nest of Scandanavians! Most of them were Norwegian, but I think a couple of Swedes came sneaking in. I know my husband and I were asked several times who let us buy a house in that neighborhood. If you weren't Scandanavian, Lutheran, or on the faculty or staff of that little private Lutheran university you were considered an outcast, and we were none of the above. Maybe outcasts weren't allow to know about these little guys.