The following experimental digital documentary poem is composed of citations of William Ellery Leonard's new verse translation of the Old English poem Beowulf (1923), a historical, ethnographic narrative written by Charles E. Brown for the performance of a young Native American Indian woman at the unveiling ceremonies of bronze markers on the Indigenous Ho-Chunk effigy mounds on Observatory Hill at the University of Wisconsin—Madison located in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives (1914), and a letter from Brown to State Architect Mr. Roger C. Kirchoff about the threatened destruction of two linear mounds on the public, land-grant university campus located in the same archives (1938). The linear mounds were destroyed to build an additional men's dormitory on campus.
When this MOUND web page is loaded and/or reloaded, server-side code selects and loads a random collection of lines from a relational database of citations:
The fray took off the thanes of Finn, all but only few.
There were no foes to oppose their possession of this region.
(5 distinct groups), only seven still remain. If the two fine.
Little cause had Hildeburh to praise the Jutemen's troth.
So long ago that no man now knows just when the ancestors.
Buildings. We shall be pleased to have your personal interest.
Of old hate and slaughter to the Danemen vaunt.
Both families prospered and intermarried.
(5 distinct groups), only seven still remain. If the two fine.
That, with his Witan's counsel, he'd use Hnaef's remnant right.
With the coming of the spring-time the families left the old village.
(5 distinct groups), only seven still remain. If the two fine.
And Hildeburh behested that at Hnaef's own pyre.
After moving westward for many moons they came to the region.
University of Wisconsin campus through the erection of.
