Tyrkjaránið (The Turkish invasion)

A glass artwork that depicts the Tyrkjaránið (The Turks invasion) By Einar Lárusson is located at Grindavík Church. 

The artwork depicts the time when pirates from Algeria and Morocco ended up in Grindavik in June 1627. After they had attacked Westman Island, they continued their journey to Grindavík, where they stole people and valuables. Algerian and Moroccan pirates were known as "Turks" in Iceland, as Algeria and Morroco were then a part of the Ottoman Empire. They seized Icelanders and Danes and sold them into slavery in North Africa. No one was killed in the raid in Grindavík, though two were injured. Some of the enslaved prisoners were later ransomed and eventually returned to Iceland. One of them was Guðrún Símonardóttir, who later married the Rev. Hallgrímur Pétursson, the author of the Hymns of the Passion. Later that same summer, there was another well-known Turks invasion of Iceland 

By the artwork, there are information signs in 6 languages providing the history of the invasion.