Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel gjøngehøvdingen by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1657-1658. The swedish captain kernbok, inger and her betrothed in abelsøn at the mansion holmegaard. Ib abelsøn wanted to blow of the mansion with the enemy officers inside as revenge for the dead of his sister soffi. But inger talks him from it as she doesn't want him to do such a evil thing on the eve of their betrothal. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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