Icelandic Legacy


Davíþspsálmar. Manuscript, 17th century.

This Icelandic translation of the Psalms by pastor Jón Þorsteinsson is bound with his Genesis sálmar. The Psalms of David are in one seventeenth-century Icelandic hand. Jín Þorsteinsson was killed in 1627 by Algerian pirates.


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