Page "Biag ni Lam-ang" Paragraph 23

Lam-ang and Ines were married with the largest wedding feast that ever been seen in the province.

In order to secure the union ’ s blessing, Lam-ang was informed that he must dive down to the very depths of the sea and retrieve a pearl from a magical oyster, otherwise the marriage would have bad luck.

( Other versions say that Lam-ang went to fish for a rare fish called rarang.

) So Lam-ang dove into the sea and, on his way down, was eaten by a fearsome fish called the Berkaken.