Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel gjøngehøvdingen by carit etlar which takes place during and after the dano-swedish war in 1657-58. Four german soldiers in the service of the swedish army, svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, ib abelsøn, elsebeth buchwald of høfdingsgaard and karen kaas. The soldiers has been trading about the stuff they wants to rob from elsebeth buchwald. Her daughter elsbeth kaas then convince svend poulsen to stop them. But they don't want to stop so he and ib abelsøn attacks them. Svend poulsen (app. 1610 - app. 1679) was real a person but the story is fiction. The look of svend poulsen is also fantasy as there is no known portraits of him. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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