A seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo journey from Algiers to Copenhagen, in this remarkable historical text. In su
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-centur
Diary of Icelandic Lutheran priest Ólafur Egilsson, kidnapped from Iceland by slave raiders from Algiers in 1627. Also includes maps and other letters from Ice
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In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North