A man has photographed a white reindeer while on a in the north of Norway. Mads Nordsveen, from Norway's capital , was hiking in the . While walking through the snow, he saw a small white . He realized it was a reindeer. He said it was so white, "he disappeared into the snow". Nordsveen said the experience was "" and like a "fairy tale". He said: "The reindeer came to me very and we looked into each other's . He was very calm....He behaved as if he was posing for my photos. He was very curious...like a little ."
The photograph has gone on social . It has been liked over 30,000 times since Nordsveen uploaded it. It is good luck in Norway to see a white reindeer. It is also good as Christmas is coming. According to folklore, Santa Claus' is pulled by eight flying reindeer. They help Santa to deliver to children. However, Santa's reindeer are brown. A white reindeer's unusual is because of a problem that removes colour from its . They are not albino. In the USA, reindeer are known as .
