BIAG NI LAM-ANG

A Biag ni Lam-Ang is a folklore story came from the Ilocos Region that was interchange from tounge to tounge of the local tribe of Ilocos Region. Pedro Bukaneg the father of Iloko literature who wrote the Life of Lam-Ang (Biag ni Lam-Ang) which consists of 294 stanza or about 1,500 lines. The story started in Nalbuan, somewhere in the valley of Naguilian river in La Union. The Ilocos region was sorrounded by mountains that's why people in the local tribes live in mountains, eats plants,and also by fishing. It is a story of a boy with a supernatural power and true love stor. the boy named Lam-Ang who wants to have a revenge for his brave father named Don Juan Panganiban because it was killed by a band of Igorots but after he slewed all the Igorots he met a beatiful maiden named Ines Kannoyan, daughter of the richest man of the town in Kalanutian an he tried to court Ines by impressing her when his white rooster crows mightily and the small house in the neighborhood collapsed and after he made his dog growls and the house that was collapse made erected again. He met his rival on Ines named Sumarang as he was on his way to Kalanutian. They quarreled violently and huried him nine hills away. Sarindang who tried to seduce Lam Ang, but he rejected Sirandang advances. With the help of Lam Ang lovable and understanding mother named Namongan and his transfolk, Lam Ang able to court Ines he brought a gold more than a match of the wealth of kannoyan's . He married Ines and there was a great celebration. After sometime Lam Ang was reminded by the headman of the town. He needs to catch rarang but he was bitten by a giant fish called Berbakan, he was swallowed by a giant fish, the only way to revived Lam Ang is to recover his bones. With the help of a diver named Marcos, Lam Ang's bone was recover. Ines was insurected to put her apron over the bones of his husband. The rooster crowed, the hen flapped her wings, the dog growled twice running and pawing at the bones, life began to stir in the assembled bones of Lam Ang. Lam Ang rewarded the diver, and they live happily ever after with their pet friends.