![]() Everything that comes after, as richly imagined by author Edith Pattou, is the basis for one of the most epic romantic fantasies ever told. One day, a great white bear comes to the mapmaker’s door to claim Rose’s birthright. ![]() To keep her close, Rose’s mother lied and told her she had been born of the obedient and pliable East. It is said that North-born babies are wild, unpredictable, intelligent, and destined to break their mothers' hearts because they all leave hearth and home to travel to the far ends of the earth. Nymah Rose, the last daughter of eight siblings born to a poor mapmaker and his superstitious wife, was a North-born baby. ![]() In the rural villages of Norway, there is an ancient belief that children inherit the qualities of the direction in which they are born. ![]()
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