Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel dronningens vagtmester by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1658-1660. Svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, and his gønger who are disguised as swedish soldier has come to the gjorslev castle to free ib abelsøn who are held captured on the roof of the tower. They eats supper with the real soldiers but while svend poulsen and the swedish captain esner is gone a scream is heard. On of the gøngers teases that it may captain esner screaming because svend poulsen is at the castle. But a soldier claims that captain esner would eat svend poulsen and that they would so with his people. Then the gønger attacks but the soldiers fights back. The swedish fähnrich plungs his sword into the teasing gønge but is injured by a pistol shoot himself. Meanwhile the freed ib abelsøn joins the battle with weapons and encouragement. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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