This week we’ll look at another excerpt from Turbulent Times, the new book about the Barbary corsair raids on Iceland[…]
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TURBULENT TIMES: JASPER KRISTJÁNSSON’S LETTER – PART 2
This week we look at the text of the letter written by Jasper Kristjánsson, the well-to-do Dane discussed in last[…]
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The Barbary corsair raids on Iceland in 1627 upended the lives of hundreds of people, wrenching them out of their[…]
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In the summer of 1627, two groups of Barbary corsairs raided Iceland. My Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I[…]
Read moreFATHER PIERRE DAN: THE ORIGIN STORY OF HISTOIRE DE BARBARIE – PART 6
Last week’s post here in this blog continued the origin story of Histoire de Babarie, the book on North African[…]
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