[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musevisa Wikipedia] has the history of this song.  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4vGCBFQE4 YouTube] has several versions, I think this is one of the more understandable.
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musevisa Wikipedia] has the history of this song.  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4vGCBFQE4 YouTube] has several versions, I think this is one of the more understandable.
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I was wondering if there could be some relationship to [http://www.swisscolony.com/Chris-Mouse-Chocolate1.pro?omSource=SLI Chris Mouse], my childhood introduction to whom was from browsing through catalogs selling overpriced "Old World" Christmas treats and cheeses.  Those catalogs led me quite early to believe that Christmas was much more special in quaint European villages than it could ever possibly be in America.  Later I figured that cheese company might have just invented Chris to sell more cheese; there didn't seem to be much character development.  But, now we can google about such things, so [http://www.chunkymonkey.com/christmas/krismouse.htm here's] the only significant story I found about Chris, if he's even the same one.   
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I was wondering if there could be some relationship to [http://www.swisscolony.com/Chris-Mouse-Chocolate1.pro?omSource=SLI Chris Mouse], my childhood introduction to whom was from browsing through catalogs selling overpriced "Old World" Christmas treats and cheeses.  Later I figured that cheese company might have just invented Chris to sell more cheese; there didn't seem to be much character development.  But, now we can google about such things, so [http://www.chunkymonkey.com/christmas/krismouse.htm here's] the only significant story I found about Chris, if he's even the same one.   
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And there was also the white witch who was rather unkind to little critters who would otherwise have been having too much fun.  
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There was also the white witch who was rather unkind to little critters who were caught having too much fun during her never-ending winter.
    
I wonder why people associate mice and Christmas at all, but one coworker offered the explanation that Norwegians used to be mostly farmers, so certainly they were familiar enough with mice, and maybe some of them sympathized a bit with mice trying to survive the winter, even while they were generally considered a pest.
 
I wonder why people associate mice and Christmas at all, but one coworker offered the explanation that Norwegians used to be mostly farmers, so certainly they were familiar enough with mice, and maybe some of them sympathized a bit with mice trying to survive the winter, even while they were generally considered a pest.
 
Anyway, back to Musevisa, a popular Christmas song in Norway, and my attempt to translate it...
 
Anyway, back to Musevisa, a popular Christmas song in Norway, and my attempt to translate it...
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