Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Guðríður Símonardóttir" in Danish language version.
The pirates came sailing from Algiers, the capital of Algeria in Africa. During this time, Algeria belonged to the kingdom of the Turkish sultan and therefore people refer to it as the Turkish invasion.
His wife, Gudridur Simonardottir, was among the 242 people, who were abducted from the Westman Islands in 1627 by Algerian buccaneers and sold on the slave market in Algeria. She was among the very few, who were bought back by the Danish king and brought back to Iceland. She was not so religious as her husband, whose name is well preserved by his work and some topographic names at Saurbaer.
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