The corsairs' longest voyage : : the Turkish raid in Iceland 1627 / / Þorsteinn Helgason ; translated by Anna Yates, Jóna Ann Pétursdóttir.
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....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English Icelandic |
| Series: | History of Warfare
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 The Inception of the Turkish Raid, and Its Central Character
- 2 Strategy and Resistance in Southwest Iceland
- 3 Incursion and Salvation in the East Fjords
- 4 Razzia and Martyrdom in the Westman Islands
- 5 Piracy and Defences
- 6 Warfare or Robbery
- 7 Salvation
- 8 Cultural Memory
- 9 The Visible Turkish Raid
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.