The first conflict began when one group entered the empty house of a merchant of Þingeyri and stole some dried fish. As retaliation, on the night of October 5th, a group of Icelanders entered the hut where the Spaniards were sleeping and killed 14 of them.

Holy proportional response, Batman. I get that it was a bad year for harvest, so stealing some dried fish could have led to deaths as well, but it still feels a little overkill