Santa Claus hasn't even existed for 200 years, and really only since 1931. But Santa Claus is a composite of several different figures with a motley background that reaches back more than a 1.000 years.
This site relates some of the true stories about Santa Claus and his predecessors.
In Danish Santa Claus is normally called "Julemanden", the Yule Man.
If you want to read the 22 stories from Santa Claus' history (in Danish) from the start, then begin here.
You can also listen to some of the stories about Santa Claus in radio quality  here.
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