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 are on their way from the gjorslev castle to isefjord with the noble people. While riding svend poulsen tells that karen kaas that the noble people may praises him now but that they will forget him after the war. Then he tells karen kass that he loves her and she give him her hand. But the mother of karen kaas elsebeth buchwald and her cousin holger rud behind them has also been talking about something. 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 is no known portraits of him. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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