This is an instrumental version of a song from Iceland that documents a series of Ottoman raids of Icelandic towns during June and July, 1627. Annoyingly, I haven’t been able to find one with lyrics, but according to various historical accounts, Dutch pirate Murat Reis commanded ships of Barbary corsairs from Morocco and Algeria that captured around 400 people. Only about two dozen escaped and made it back to Iceland.
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Filing it away for when we’re in Reykjavik in October!
Augh! Take me with you!
Wow!
Nifty. And a fascinating bit of history I’d never learned.