Slaying of the Spaniards

Captain Martín de Villafranca of San Sebastián, whose father and grandfather had both been involved with Terra Nova whaling, was among those who were killed.

Jón Guðmundsson the Learned wrote about the unjust and cruel deaths "dishonored and sunken into sea, as if they were the worst pagans and not innocent Christians".

Three days after the first slaying, Ari Magnússon summoned a council at Súðavík and twelve judges agreed to declare all the Spaniards as outlaws.

The Spaniards were considered criminals after their ships were wrecked and in accordance with the Icelandic law book of 1281, it was decided that the only right thing to do was to kill as many of them as possible.

On April 22, 2015, a descendant of one of the victims, Xabier Irujo, set up a stele in Hólmavík in memory of the massacre, along with Magnus Raffnson, whose ancestor was a perpetrator.

[2] The opening ceremony was attended by Westfjords district commissioner Jónas Guðmundsson and Martín Garitano [es], then governor of the Gipuzkoa province in the Basque Country, Spain.