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Phra Lo: the poem's towns and the map's towns
Read the few lines of Lilit Phra Lo that say where its towns lie (stanzas 5, 6, 286, 296, 317, 656), then pick one of four proposed answers (Song and Wiang Kalong, Song and Wiang Lo, Mae Suai, Phayao and Luang Prabang). The widget places the towns on a map, works out direction and distance, and compares them with the verse, as the text has it and as some writers reverse it. Tab two lines up the views on who wrote the poem and when on one timeline, with the evidence each uses. Every item names its sources.
How to use it
Tap a stanza number to read the verse; pick an answer to place the towns; switch between the text's directions and the reversed summary; tap a dot to read about the place. Tab two: tap a bar or a piece of evidence.
What it teaches
What a literary text actually says, and how later identifications of its places differ from it.
Options
| Option | Values | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| opening tab | The poem's towns vs the map · Who wrote it, and when | The tab opened at the start (omitted = map) |
| opened answer | Song and Wiang Kalong · Phayao and Luang Prabang | Places the towns by this answer at the start |
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