“The king died in his bedchamber”: how to read one line
The chronicle records Lê Long Đĩnh’s death in the bedchamber and explains the Ngọa Triều epithet. Folk history, Ngô Thì Sĩ and the field add readings.
STORIES
History and sources
Long reads on the people, the chronicle, and what the series invents.
Ngô Sĩ Liên: the historian behind the chronicle
The fifteenth-century Lê official who compiled the Toàn thư in 1479. What is attributed to him, what later editors added, and why the difference matters.
Ngô Thì Sĩ: the historian who doubted the epithet
Ngô Thì Sĩ (1726–1780) wrote the Tiền biên and the Việt sử tiêu án. His poisoning hypothesis is the fourth reading — a later interpretation, not record.