The Departed Spirits of the Viet Realm

as a Teaching Tool for Early Vietnam

by K.W. Taylor, Brian Ostrowski, and Brian Zottoli.

Departed Spirits of the Viet Realm is curriculum named after a recently-completed English translation of one of the earliest Vietnamese compilations of folk tales, the Viet Dien U Linh or Departed Spirits of the Viet Realm, attributed to author Ly Te Xuyen in 1329. The text is comprised of twenty-seven stories about powerful deities and spirits who were thought to have helped the kings. Designed as a tool for teaching about early Vietnam, this packet includes a translation of each of these stories and is accompanied by an introduction with suggestions for classroom use.

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