I’ve been working on the bibliography for Odin’s Promise. It will include several books for young readers featuring the historic conditions that shaped Mari’s and Odin’s story. There will also be a surprisingly long list of resources. Aspects of this story have bounced around my head for several decades. Throughout that time I’ve read, made notes, and set aside books for later use. I was surprised, though, at the length list of the list of titles this effort generated. In much the same way as Number the Stars left unconscious footprints in my mind, the various stories and historic details in these resources did the same for me and my writing. It was only last year that I stumbled across Kathleen Stokker’s scholarly book: FOLKLORE…