Several weeks back (in a post linked here) I noted one of the  scholarly research sources I used while writing Odin’s Promise. Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-1945, by Kathleen Stoker, is also acknowledged in other recent novels set in the years of Norway’s occupation by German forces. The many subtle but subversive resistance actions Stoker describes are documented in other sources,  but her work incorporates excerpts of diaries and artifacts that made the time and place come to life for me.   One subversion in particular has a small mention in  Odin’s story. Resistance groups in Olso, particularly centered around the university, involved wearing a small paper clip on one’s lapel. In Norwegian a paper clip is called a binder,…