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