Lizdeika

According to the legend first recorded in the Bychowiec Chronicle, Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas went hunting in the Šventaragis' Valley, fell asleep, and dreamed of a huge howling Iron Wolf.

Maciej Stryjkowski added additional note that Lizdeika was found in an eagle's nest or, according to others, in a cradle in a tree by Grand Duke Vytenis who raised him as his son.

[4] Various 19th-century authors, including Adam Kirkor and Michal Baliński [pl], claimed that Lizdeika was found in Verkiai, a suburb of Vilnius.

[5] Researchers of the Lithuanian mythology, including Vladimir Toporov and Gintaras Beresnevičius, analyzed Lizdeika's origin and noted its shamanistic motifs.

[6][7] Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz (1609–1677) in his armorial of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and work about the Radziwiłł family identified Lizdeika as its progenitor.