The Turkish Abductions, a series of slave raids by pirates in Iceland #volcano #iceland

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Did you know that inhabitants of Grindavik were enslaved by pirates ?

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49 thoughts on “The Turkish Abductions, a series of slave raids by pirates in Iceland #volcano #iceland”

  3. This video started automatically when I wasn't looking at the screen for the context and you said "Grindavik residents have been enslaved". I was like 😲because that sentence means they are still currently enslaved. I know German doesn't have any distinction in meaning between Präteritum and Perfekt and it mostly just depends on which verb you're using and how formal you want to be, but there can be a huge difference between simple past and present perfect in English. Anyway, interesting video!

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  4. Good morning sweet Silki.😊
    The Reykjanes peninsula is the "youngest" land in Iceland. The earth in that area continues to build there and humans cannot stop this process.
    Icelanders are a strong, resilient people. They are descended from the horse settlers and they will adapt, survive and thrive.❤

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  9. Interesting history and of course when we see what is happening today we forget that the people of Grindavik have long standing ties to the land and are willing to fight tooth and nail to return to it just as their ancestors did.

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  15. Fascinating piece of history, thank you! Algerians, you say? Well, that country was sacked by the French in 1830, so if I were cynical (which of course I'd never be) I might say that this was justice in the long run.
    "Murat Reis" reminds me of Piri Reis, the legendary sailor and map-maker who allegedly got a glimpse of Antarctica, and in that context I read that "Reis" is a title that sometimes is translated as "admiral", but as there was no organized navy back then, I'd say it's rather like "captain and ship owner".
    Just forwarded the link to a friend of mine in Berlin, Germany, whose name is, you guess it: Murat. I'm sure he'll like it.

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  25. Great reporting, Silki! Thank you for sharing this with us! I have not heard this before!!!!!! Very interesting. Thoughts and prayers for all of these hardy people. And thank you for sharing your animals with us :0) !!!!

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  28. Yes, enslavement of Europeans is a fact. Between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 15th and 19th centuries and that is an issue that is never talked about. An issue that is talked about is the slavery of African Americans. why is that? This story is also remarkable and in many ways very similar…and they intertwine! (now I'm not a professor, so don't take my word for it find your own knowledge) The enslavement of European people was mostly something like this; The men were most of the time, castrates or rendered infertile and very few of them survive the procedure. Even though European men were strong, the slave owners wanted no competition with them. the European women were strong and sought after for work, but also for breeding with black men, they were simply breeding beautiful women to use as sex slaves, newborn boys were slaughtered only girls were allowed to live and were used as sex toys "far too young". And many slave owners wanted to have the most beautiful dark skin European looking ones for themselves and they acquired with them many little slaves (children). Some of the children (That were very European looking) however, received a family name from their father, but most often were then not allowed to acknowledge their mother. You never hear Europeans talk about their people being enslaved, that we have had to fight to get rid of kidnappers and that we have searched for relatives who have been enslaved. and taken to the other side of the earth in slavery. no wonder it took us a long time to find out what happened to our people. After conflicts and battles in almost every fishing village in Europe

    not only in MANY fishing villages of Iceland

    not just in Grindavík

    But, in all of Europe!

    (sometime after the middle of the 19th century) As far as I know, at least one Icelander has found a relative, she was kidnapped and enslaved. she had been freed from slavery

    but she did not want to leave her children who were with their own father, to come back home to Iceland. The father of her children was also her slaveholder. And later when the children were grown up, then she was an old woman and wanted to know her grandchildren and watch them grow up.

    still, don't take my word for it, google it. maybe you won't find quite the same stories i have told, i had to search long and hard to find what i found so many years ago, and I may have confused somethings or forgot something since then…the fact is that my memory is fading

    so explore exactly how the story goes 🤩if you are still reading… it must mean you are interested! It might surprise you, if you google it 🥰

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  35. Hi Silki The story of the invasion of Grindavik was very interesting. I feel very sorry for the people there .For the last 4 months they have been pushed from pillar to post, not knowing from one day to another where they will be sleeping. It must be very traumatising especially for the children and the elderly. I hope that some sort of settlement comes soon, whether in the form of a payout from insurance or Government funds or hopefully help from the EU., but surely this insecurity cant go on indefinitely. They deserve better than this.

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  37. Silki, it’s “core-sairs,” not core-sirs, emphasis on second syllable. Your English is so good, I thought up you might appreciate knowing. Love every video. Introduce your animals to us! Not long animal videos, just intros since they now have a supporting role. 😊

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  38. Thank you for researching & telling this sad but interesting story, Silki. Strangely, I sketched the first short outline for a story about the episode at about the same time earlier today, as you uploaded this episode. Perhaps more interesting than my little sketch, is the fact that there is a fictional book, a novel, about my Greenland being pillaged in the same way, and people captured for slavery. I can't remember exactly, but I think the ships were either Dutch or Iberian, and launched in that novel as a theory for how the Viking era of Greenland ended. I read it like a real page-turner, in summer by the beach, and nearly was flooded by the tide coming in as my nose was deep down in this quasi-historical novel.

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  42. Great dive into history and I guess a lot of viewers will now look deeper in this dark chapter which was a nightmare for all Europeans on their shorelines. More than 1.25 Million people were kidnapped and brought into slavery or killed right away. This Chapter of history is nearly forgotten nowadays

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