TYRKJARANS-SAGA: EINAR LOPTSSON’S EXPERIENCE AS A SLAVE IN ALGIERS – PART 1
In the summer of 1627, two sets of Barbary corsairs—one from Salé, one from Algiers—raided Iceland. The Salé corsairs pillaged[…]
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Month: October 2023
DEFINITELY A COMPLICATED ALLIANCE
When people think about the relationship between North African Barbary corsairs and the European states in the seventeenth century, they[…]
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NAVAL TACTICS
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of violent conflict, both on land and at sea. They were also[…]
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THE ART OF SHOOTING GREAT ORDINANCE
The term “great ordinance” was used throughout the seventeenth (and the late sixteenth and early eighteenth) centuries to mean “cannon”[…]
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TURBULENT TIMES – BISHOP ODDUR EINARSSON
This week we’ll look at another excerpt from Turbulent Tines, the new book about the Barbary corsair raids on Iceland[…]
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