Ringeren was established as a weekly magazine by Sigurd Ibsen in Kristiania. A test issue appeared on 27 November 1897. Its first issue was published on 1 January 1898.{{cite journal|author=Terje I. Leiren|title=The Role of Kingship in the Monarchist-Republican Debate in Norway, 1905|journal=
The Historian|date=February 1986 Carl Naerup took over the magazine shortly before it folded in 1899.{{cite journal|author=Brian W. Downs ==References==