October 2021 – Corsairs & Captives

THE BARBARY CORSAIR RAID ON GRINDAVÍK IN 1627 – PART 6

(This post is a continuation of The Barbary Corsair Raid on Grindavík in 1627 – Parts 1 – 5. If[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Barbary Corsair Raid on Grindavík in 1627 – Parts 1 – 6. If[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Barbary Corsair Raid on Grindavík in 1627 – Parts 1 – 7. If[…]

Back in 2016, my Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I published The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson: The Story[…]

The commander of the Salé corsairs who raided southeast Iceland in the summer of 1627 was a Dutch renegade whose[…]

Back in the summer of 1627, two lots of Barbary corsairs from North Africa raided Iceland. One group came from[…]