6/11/2023 0 Comments Eifelheim book![]() ![]() His reasons for living in self-imposed exile form a counterpoint to the alien story and Dietrich’s gradual redemption and forgiveness for past sins intertwines aptly with the Krenken accommodations to medieval life. There are fractions within the Krenkish and human camps alike, though the reader sees everything through Dietrich, who in perhaps the book’s one major contrivance, is a rather more intellectually gifted man than might be expected for a remote village priest. The book is at its most fascinating in addressing the fraught and complex process of understanding (and misunderstanding) between medieval and alien minds. ![]() With Hilde, a village woman, he tends the injured and they gradually, with a standard SF computer translation device, come to communicate. Dietrich, whose theology is informed by his rational, intellectually rigorous education in Paris, soon realises that the visitors are not demons, as some villagers would have, but travellers from afar. The giant grasshopper-like aliens, some of whom are injured, are discovered by the local priest, Dietrich, and Max, the right hand man of the benevolent local lord, Manfred. ![]() Eifelheim is largely set in the late Middle Ages in and around an unremarkable village in the German forests south of Strasbourg in the vicinity of Freiburg.The book follows the aftermath of the emergency ‘landing’ of a Krenkish vessel in the Great Woods near the village of Oberhochwald. ![]()
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