Gjøngehøvdingen 063, 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, svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, and two farm hands in the background. Ib abelsøn has just been spying next to a hot fireplace and has become very thirsty because of it. 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..