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 ib abelsøn on a horse-drawn wagon pretending to be peasants who deliver hay to the swedish troops. They have hidden money to the danish king under the hay but a swedish patrol pass by without noticing them. Afterwards the happy ib abelsøn praise svend poulsen for his cleverness. 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..
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