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Updated: May 20, 2025
She had often seen the northern lights, but never any so brilliant as these. Everyone seemed charged with the electricity, and little Karen said softly, "I never felt so strange before. The lights go up and down my back to the tip of my toes." "It is the elves of light dancing round the room," said Birger with a laugh. "No," said Gerda, "it is the Tomtar playing with the electric wires."
Then both little girls shrieked with laughter. Birger said little about the Tomtar and pretended that he did not believe in them at all; but when Gerda set out a dish of sweets for the little old men, he moved it down to a low stool where they would have no trouble in finding it.
We'd never be ready for Yule if it wasn't for the Tomtar." The Tomtar are little old men with long gray beards and tall pointed red caps, who live under the boards and in the darkest corners of the chests. They come creeping out to do their work in the middle of the night, when the house is still, and they are especially helpful at Christmas time.
But now the Tomtar were all snugly hidden away for the day, so Gerda had to wipe up the water for herself, and then run back to her dusting; but before it was finished, Birger and his father came up the stairs, one tugging a fragrant spruce tree, the other carrying a big bundle of oats on his shoulder.
"Oh, Karen," she exclaimed, "this is the best birthday gift of all! The Tomtar sent it on the electric wires." "No," said Birger, "it was the elves of light dancing across the room." But Karen looked at the little family clustered so close around her. "It is my crown of joy and is from each one of you," she said; "but from Gerda most of all." It was the middle of June.
The two little girls had been talking about the Tomtar for weeks. Whenever Karen found a mysterious package lying forgotten on the table, Gerda would hurry it away out of sight, saying, "Sh! Little Yule Tomten must have left it." And one day when Gerda found a dainty bit of embroidery under a cushion, it was Karen's turn to say, "Let me have it quick! Yule Tomten left it for me."
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