The Corsairs’ Longest Voyage

Download or read book The Corsairs’ Longest Voyage written by Þorsteinn Helgason and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the summer of 1627, corsairs from Algiers and Salé, Morocco, undertook the long voyage to Iceland where they raided the eastern and southern regions of the country, resulting in the deaths of around thirty people, and capturing about 400 further individuals who were sold on the slave markets. Around 10% of the captives were ransomed the next twenty years, mostly through the efforts of the Danish monarchy. In this volume, the history of these extraordinary events and their long-lasting memory are traced and analysed from the viewpoints of maritime warfare, cultural encounters and existential options, based on extensive use of various sources from several languages.