May 13 - Ole Worm, physician and antiquary (died 1655)

Vg 55 has been known since the Swedish runestone surveys of the 16th century, and was described by Ole Worm in 1555.

When the antiquary Ole Worm (1588-1654) explored the monument, it consisted of eight stones.

May 13 - Ole Worm, Danish physician and antiquary (d. 1654)

The monument was in good shape when documented by Ole Worm in 1643, but a survey in 1876 found that all of the stones had fallen except one.

August 31 - Ole Worm, physician and antiquary (born 1588)

The stone was noted by Ole Worm as having been discovered around 1638 in a field north of Læborg.

His son in law was the Danish physician and natural historian, Ole Worm, who married Fincke's daughter Dorothea.

The 17th century was an era of renewed interest in Scandinavian antiquities with scholars like Ole Worm at the forefront.

Wormian bones are named for Ole Worm, Professor of Anatomy at Copenhagen, 1558-1654.