Hi,

Let's see, what do we know about Santa?
* Elderly gentleman, obviously not a little baby boy just being born in a cave somewhere in the Levant;
* Comes around every Christmas, apparently not a dead Saint called Nicolas who is lying in his grave and awaiting the last day;
* travels by reindeer sleigh, not likely to be a Norse god travelling on an 8-legged horse, then.

Having eliminated the usual suspects, what else do we know:
If he were an elf, he would:
* be longlived;
* have a hoard of some kind;
* have magic that protected his hoard from ever diminishing;
* reward those who were kind;
* not have magic to open doors, and thus would need to find a different way to enter a house.

Difficult. Does Santa match any (or all) of the above?

BTW, don't forget elves existed long before Lord Dunsany wrote The King of Elfland's Daughter

Bye
                                                                Mysha