Category: Captives

Seen from the sea, seventeenth century Algiers presented a quite spectacular sight. The city was located on the northwestern horn[…]

Guttormur Hallsson was a farmer in a place called Búlandsnes, near the town of Djúpivogur, on Berufjörður (Beru Fjord) in[…]

(This post is a continuation of Guttormur Hallsson: a Captive’s Tale – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

(This post is a continuation of Guttormur Hallsson: a Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done[…]

Once upon a time—back in the 1570s—there was Augustinian friar named Antonio, a Portuguese man living in Spain, who had[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Travails of Friar Antonio – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Travails of Friar Antonio – Parts 1 and 2. If you haven’t done[…]

In the early 1600s, a young French sailor named Nicolaus, from Havre de Grace (modern-day Le Havre, located on the[…]

On Wednesday, June 20,1 1627, Barbary corsairs raided the village of Grindavík on Iceland’s southwest coast. These corsairs had come[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Járngerðarstaðir Farm Family – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s[…]