Gjøngehøvdingen 071, 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. A group of swedish horse men with the captured svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, and ib abelsøn arrives at jungshoved castle. A trumpeter blow his horn to let the other soldiers in the castle know that they arrive with an important catch. 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..