Gjøngehøvdingen 077, Poul Steffensen

Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel gjøngehøvdingen by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1657-1658. Ib abelsøn, tam and svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen. Ib abelsøn and svend poulsen becomes happy when the previous treacherous tam tell them how he warned the other gønger when the two where captured and how he found and hided their barrel with money. 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..