Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel dronningens vagtmester by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1658-1660. Ib abelsøn has come down from the tower at the gjorslev castle where he has been hiding from the swedish soldiers after the evil kulsoen has catch sight of him og got him down by getting the swedish soldiers to torture his girlfriend inger. But kulsoen also noticed that one of his comrades got away with a bot with the treasures of the noble people at the castle. Now ib abelsøn has been going to hole it while inger is back at the castle as a hostage. Meanwhile the german captain esner in swedish service goes to kulsoen and pays her the promised reward to the one who caught sight of ib abelsøn og got him taken. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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