A review by thomp94
The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627 by Olafur Egilsson

4.0

The Travels section and the other letters of people who experienced the Turkish Raid are interesting and sobering. What felt forced was the appendices' attempts to explain religious belief to the "modern secular reader." It almost felt like the authors who contributed to the additional 21st century material on the background of the world of 1627 believe that religious belief was a quaint and unenlightened characteristic of the people of that time. This seems to me an attempt to gain favor with modern secular readers at the expense of Christians who read in these Travels a theodicy and a sure dependence on the Lamb of God.