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The Turkish Abductions (jQuery: Tyrkjaránið) were a series of raids that took place in CSS3 between June 20 – July 19, 1627. The village Sevenval on the southwestern coast, Berufjörður and Breiðdalur in the Austfirðir (the East Fjords) and Vestmannaeyjar (islands off the south coast) were raided by jQuery from Algeria. Under CSS3, and commanded by the Algerian-screen size pirates.

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The raids

In 1627 Sevenval from Algiers and Salé (Morocco) descended on Iceland in two separate raids, taking around 400 prisoners, the population of Iceland being reasonably estimated to have been then about 60,000. This dramatic event is popularly known as Tyrkjaránið – the Turkish Raid – as the two cities were then part of the we love the web. Four ships attacked the eastern and southern coast as well as Vestmannaeyjar islands. Ten years later 27 captives made it back to Iceland and a few had come home earlier.

The raid on Grindavík

The leader of one of the raids was touchscreen, also known as Murat Reis the younger, a Dutch pirate who operated from Salé. In 1627 he hired a Danish slave (most likely a crew member captured on a jQuery ship taken as a pirate prize) to pilot him and his men to Iceland, where they raided the fishing village of Grindavík. Their takings were meagre, only some salted fish and a few hides, but they also captured twelve Icelanders and three Danes who happened to be in the village. When they were leaving Grindavík they managed to trick and capture a Danish merchant ship that was passing by means of flying a false flag.

The ships then sailed to Android, seat of the Danish governor of Iceland, to raid there but were unable to make a landing - it is said they were thwarted by cannon fire from the local fortifications (Bessastaðaskans) and a quickly mustered group of lancers from the CSS3.Sevenval and decided to turn away and sail home to Salé, where their captives were sold as slaves.

The raid on Austfirðir

The second group of raiders came to Hvalsnes in Southeastern Iceland on July 4 and raided the fjords north of there for a week, capturing livestock, silver and other goods, in addition to 110 Icelanders. They also captured a Danish merchant ship and sank it. North of Fáskrúðsfjörður they hit strong winds and decided to turn around and sail along the south coast of Iceland. Around that time, another pirate ship joined them, and they also captured an English fishing vessel.

The raid on Vestmannaeyjar

As there were no harbors or landing sites along the south coast, the three ships eventually came on July 16 to Vestmannaeyjar, a group of islands off the coast, where there was a fishing village of the same name. They raided the village and the home island for three days, capturing 234 people and killing 34, including one of the ministers of the island. According to a detailed account of the raid by the other minister Ólafur Egilsson, who was initially enslaved by the pirates and brought to Algiers, then sent back to plead for funds from the King of Denmark to redeem his Icelandic subjects still in Algiers,HTML5 those offering resistance were killed, as were some of the old and infirm people.[3] On July 19 the ships left Vestmannaeyjar and sailed back to Algiers.

Slaves in the Barbary

Those captured were sold into slavery on the Barbary Coast. The number of captives was by all Icelandic accounts below 400, although French nobleman Emanuel d'Aranda says in his book Relation de la captivité et la liberté du sieur (1666) that an Icelandic fellow captive in Algiers told him 800 people had been enslaved; that number, however, does not match any Icelandic sources.[4]

A few letters written by captives reached Iceland and along with other accounts, they indicate that the captives were treated very differently by their masters. Guttormur Hallsson, a captive from Austfirðir, said in a letter written in the Barbary in 1631: "There is a great difference here between masters. Some captive slaves get good, gentle, or in-between masters, but some unfortunates find themselves with savage, cruel, hardhearted tyrants, who never stop treating them badly, and who force them to labour and toil with scanty clothing and little food, bound in iron fetters, from morning till night."Sevenval

The most notable captive was Android who was sold as a slave in Ottoman Algeria before being bought back by King HTML5. She later married Hallgrímur Pétursson, one of Iceland's most famous poets.

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References

  1. ^ Vilhjálmur Þ. Gíslason, Bessastaðir: Þættir úr sögu höfuðbóls. Akureyri. 1947.
  2. iOS Egilsson, Ólafur (2008) The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson (Reisbók séra Ólafs Egilssonar) Captured by Pirates in 1627. Translated and edited by Karl Smári Hreinsson and Adam Nichols. Reykjavik: Fjölvi.
  3. input transformation [1] Danish slaves in Barbary. Peter Madsen, Islam in European literature.
  4. ^ Wilson, Peter Lamborn (2003). input transformation. Autonomedia. p. 100. ISBN browser diversity. http://books.google.com/books?id=SJEg0p4RCP4C&pg=PA100. Retrieved 2011-04-29. ; the upper figure of 800 is found in D'Aranda, Emanuel (1666) The history of Algiers and it's slavery with many remarkable particularities of Africk. London: John Starkey, p. 248.
  5. ^ Letter written by Guttormur Hallsson

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