Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel dronningens vagtmester by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1658-1660. The husband of the evil kulsoen, tam, has warned ib abelsøn that kulsoen is going to hit his girlfriend inger. He goes to the house where they are and captures kulsoen before she can poison inger. He then takes her to the sea and puts her onboard an ice floe, letting god decides whether she shall come ashore or ending in the sea. She screams and begs but the ice floe drives away and her clothes works as a sail. At last she disappear in the open sea and dies. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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