In a medieval world that's like a seedy and disreputable neighbour to Guy Gavriel Kay's, where paganism is giving away to Christianity, the bastard son of a pagan king is invited to go seek his fortune elsewehere, and with a stableboy and tutor as his companions, he has assorted encounters and adventures that mingle the sacred and the profane more or less routinely, and which are as often baffling to everyone concerned as not. Peregrine soon gets the swing of things, however. With it high erudition and colourful characters and situations, this is Umberto Eco crossed with jack Vance, but, as with all Davidson, still very much its own thing