Rijnswijnd

pdebarra

Who exactly was Rijnswijnd? Was he a character in his own right? Was he a foreign equivalent of Rincewind, like Cut Me Own Hand Off Dhblah? Or was this simply a foreign mispronunciation of Rincewind?

Karl Hungus

Wasn't it when Rincewind crossed some kinda magical instability bubble or something (Can't remember) and he woke up on an airplane and people called him Rijnswijnd (Or something?)?

Red Hand

Yep, as Karl says, he crossed the the barrier between our universe and Discworld's universe for a short while (I think it was in The Colour Of Magic), and he finds himself to be a Scandinavian scientist (Dr Rijnswijnd) travelling on a plane in our reality who specialises in certain oxidation processes within nuclear reactors. Twoflower also pops up on this plane as a certain Monsieur Deux Fleur (can't remember what he was...other than being French)

deman

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Yep, as Karl says, he crossed the the barrier between our universe and Discworld's universe for a short while (I think it was in The Colour Of Magic), and he finds himself to be a Scandinavian scientist (Dr Rijnswijnd) travelling on a plane in our reality who specialises in certain oxidation processes within nuclear reactors. Twoflower also pops up on this plane as a certain Monsieur Deux Fleur (can't remember what he was...other than being French)

Indeed it was The Colour of Magic.

funky penguin

When I read that first (think I was 12), I was terribly confused.

paulusdu

nothing wrong with being 12 and getting confused by Mr Pratchett, im in my 30's and i still scratch my heads and flip back a few pages to figure out where the train came off the track . . .

still funny though