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Ólafur Egilsson (1564 – 1 March 1639) was an Icelandic Lutheran minister. In 1627, he was abducted, along with his wife and two sons, by Barbary Pirates under the Ottoman Empire during their raid on Vestmannaeyjar. The raid is known in Icelandic history as Tyrkjaránið ( The Turkish abductions ).
May 7, 2021 · In summer 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens and abducting almost four hundred people to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was Lutheran minister Olafur Egilsson.
Mar 11, 2018 · Ólafur Egilsson. Catholic University of America Press + ORM , Mar 11, 2018 - History - 282 pages. A seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo...
The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson (Reisubók Séra Ólafs Egilssonar) is Reverend Ólafur’s own account of his capture in Iceland, his time as a captive in Algiers, and his subsequent travels across Europe to Denmark to raise ransom money for his wife and children.
Jul 29, 2016 · In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was the Lutheran minister...
The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson (known in Iceland as Reisubók Séra Ólafs Egilssonar) is a well‑known classic of seventeenth century Icelandic literature, but it has never before been translated into English. It tells an altogether remarkable story.
When the eleven-year-old son of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson came by, all unsuspecting, to see his parents, the pirates captured him at once and tied his arms behind his back. He, too, was left outside the farmhouse.
Ólafur Egilsson is the author of The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson (3.85 avg rating, 151 ratings, 39 reviews, published 2008), Bjarni Benediktsson ...
REVEREND ÓLAFUR EGILSSON explains signs and events which happened here in Iceland, mainly in the Westman Islands, which were warnings for what happened later, but of which nobody took notice.¹... About the preparations that were put into effect when word of the pirates was first heard.
The combination of Reverend Olafur's narrative, the letters, and the material in the Appendices provides a first-hand, in-depth view of early seventeenth-century Europe and the Maghreb equaled by few other works dealing with the period.
