Two 2023 university graduate students, Ewan and Alyssa, trained to squint at the universe, find themselves transported among the heathen of the early middle ages. Trying to get back home, they encounter poets, priests, priestesses, warriors, gods, as well as university professors, philosophers, mystics, and religious teachers. To survive, they make choices and experience moments of inspiration as their sense of the supernatural grows and their modern world-view shrinks. Time of the Heathen is a literary novel set in a sci-fi/fantasy (SFF) adventure genre. This book is Volume 1 of a two-book sereies. Part 2 continues the 7th century story but in the 21st century, where the protagonists choose which side they support when an alien invasion occurs at the height of a nuclear war.