Books

The literature directly about Ribe is mostly in Danish, but a couple of books make it more vivid for the English-speaking visitor.

Guide

Books

01

The Long Ships

A Swedish historical novel from 1941–45, set in the late tenth century and one of the great prose works on the Viking age. The …
02

I Am Dina

Not set in Ribe but in the corresponding small ports of north Norway in the nineteenth century, Wassmo's haunting trilogy captures the texture of …