Norbertas Vėlius (1 January 1938 in Gulbės, near
Šilalė
Šilalė (, Samogitian: ''Šėlalė'', yi, שילעל ''Shilel'', pl, Szyłele) is a town in Western Lithuania, Samogitia, Tauragė County. It is located north of Tauragė. The River Lokysta flows through the town and there is a pond in the ...
– 23 June 1996 in
Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...
, buried in the
Antakalnis Cemetery
Antakalnis Cemetery ( lt, Antakalnio kapinės, pl, Cmentarz na Antokolu, be, Антокальскія могілкі), sometimes referred as Antakalnis Military Cemetery, is an active cemetery in the Antakalnis district of Vilnius, Lithuania. I ...
) was a
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
n folklorist specializing in
Lithuanian mythology.
Major works
*''Mitinės lietuvių sakmių būtybės'' (1977)
*''Laumių dovanos'' (1979) (translated into Russian as ''Цветок папоротника: литовские мифологические сказания'' in 1989, into English as ''Lithuanian mythological tales'' in 1998)
*''Senovės baltų pasaulėžiūra'' (1983) (translated into English as ''The World Outlook of the Ancient Balts'' in 1989)
*''Chtoniškasis lietuvių mitologijos pasaulis'' (1987)
*''Baltų religijos ir mitologijos šaltiniai'', 4 volumes (1996–2005).
1938 births
1996 deaths
Lithuanian mythology researchers
20th-century Lithuanian historians
People from Tauragė County
Burials at Antakalnis Cemetery
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