An illustration from the story "The Knights of the Joyous Venture" from the first printing of
Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book
Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "Thorkild had given back before his Devil, till the bowmen on the ship could shoot it all full of arrows".
The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself.
See another illustrationIllustrator: Harold Robert Millar; restoration: Adam Cuerden