Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel gjøngehøvdingen by carit etlar which takes place during and after the dano-swedish war in 1657-1658. Ane marie, her husband svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, and ib abelsøn. Svend poulsen is laying sick because he was shoot in the arm during the fight at høfdingsgaard a week before. Ane marie is spinning while her brother ib abelsøn is polishing a light sword he got after the fight. Svend poulsen (app. 1610 - app. 1679) was a real person but the story is fiction. The look of svend poulsen is also fantasy as there are no known portraits of him. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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