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 who are held captured on the roof of the tower. They eats supper with the real soldiers but while svend poulsen and the swedish captain esner are gone a fight breaks out. The freed ib abelsøn joins and leads the gønger but a soldier holes carbines for the other. The swedish fähnrich threatens with that they will shoot if the gønger doesn't surrender before he has counted to three. But when he gets to two the chicken boy palle that he may as well stop because palle has screwed the flint stones of the carbines so that they can't shoot. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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