He gives particular attention to the possibility of finding Coptic words and names in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Danicorum Monumentorum Libri Sex. Copenhagen, Joachim Moltke, 1643. A Danish physician, Ole Worm was the first to practice prehistoric archaeology. The present work is particularly important for its description of many Danish monuments and inscriptions now lost.
Worm devotes a major portion of the work to the study of runes.
This volume bears the bookplate of John Campbell. Return to the introductory page .