Corsairs' Longest Voyage
Subtitle: The Turkish Raid in Iceland 1627
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789004284876
Subjects: Historiography; Piracy; Pirates; Memory; Iceland, history
Description: 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.0In 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.