Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel gjøngehøvdingen by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1657-1658. Svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, and a group of gønger at an opening in the ice of a stream. Svend poulsen and ib abelsøn has previous let a barrel the money roll into the opening to hide it from the swedes and now they try to find it again. Svend poulsen (app. 1610 - app. 1679) was a real person but the story is fiction. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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