Illustration for the folk tale askeladden and the good helpers
"once upon a time there was a king, and that king had heard of a ship that went as fast on land as it did on water; then he also wanted one like that, and to the one who could build it, he promised the king's daughter and half the kingdom, and he lit it up on the church slopes all over the country"
scanned illustration from 1936 edition of asbjørnsen & moe: collected adventures. Norwegian artists' picture edition. Gyldendal norwegian publishing house. Date: first published 1907 or earlier.
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