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. Svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, ib abelsøn and the curate oluf tange. Oluf tange has previous betrayed the two other to captain manheimer but has lost his job and love due to that. Now he wants to make i good again by helping them as they are about to deal with the captain again. Svend poulsen and ib abelsøn remains sceptic however. 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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