The Knight

Gene Wolfe's The Knight is an odd book. The premise that that the world has seven levels; we're on Midgard, below us are the Elflands, and below that is Muspel and Niflheim; above us is Sky, and a couple more above that. The main character, Sir Able of the High Heart, starts off as a normal American teenage boy (or at least that's what it looks like), but then he meet the Queen of the Elves, and falls in love with her. After that he goes off on adventures, trying to become worthy of her...but he gets sidetracked from time to time. He'll start off to rescue someone, and then he gets taken up or down a level, and in Midgard a year passes during the few subjective days he's gone. The Norse mythos predominates, but there's enough Celtic in there to throw a few curves. I suspect that if I wait a month and go back and reread it, I'll find all sorts of things I missed the first time round.
Since I'm not sure what to make of it, here's another review.