Basques safe in Iceland as district repeals decree to kill them on sight

The edict was issued in 1615 after a storm destroyed three Basque whaling vessels on an expedition in Iceland. Eighty members of the crew survived, said Gudmundsson, and were left stranded in the area. “They had nothing to eat, and there were accounts of them robbing people and farmers,” he said. The brewing conflict between locals and the whalers prompted then-sheriff Ari Magnússon to draw up a d

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これでバスク人も安心してアイスランドを旅行できますねｗ