Little Christmas spirits with the Christmas spirit
Updated: Mar 7
As I looked the Virginia-bound postcards from around the world from the last post, I noticed a couple things in particular about the cards themselves.
One: the charming nature of the illustrations from the 1960s (and that so many Scandinavian ones love little gnomes, called tomtar).
Two: so many of the cards had a word related to "Yule." It got me thinking we should share ways to wish people a Merry Christmas, particularly in the Germanic languages.
German
Frohe Weihnachten und ein Glückliches Neues Jahr -
a common greeting in German-speaking countries.