Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel dronningens vagtmester by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1658-1660. Svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, and his gønger who are disguised as swedish soldier has come to the gjorslev castle to free ib abelsøn. But while svend poulsen and the swedish captain esner are gone a fight breaks out. The freed ib abelsøn joins the fight but it is the chicken boy palle who becomes the hero by screwing the flint stones of the soldier's carbines so that they can't shoot. When svend poulsen returns ib abelsøn tells him that the soldiers has surrendered. Svend poulsen do notice however that the fight has taken the lives of seven soldiers and four gønger. Svend poulsen (app. 1610 - app. 1679, at the left) was a real person but the story is fiction. The look of svend poulsen is also fantasy as there is no known portraits of him. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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