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 young nobleman holger rud, svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, and ib abelsøn rides through the forest when a group of swedish horsemen catch up with them. Holger rud don't like it and the screaming swedes makes his horse uneasy. He then spur the horse, rides through the swedish group and disappear. Svend poulsen (app. 1610 - app. 1679, number two from the right) 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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