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:
And under the skies she set her eyes on murder-bale of kin.
And prairies, how to catch the fish in the streams, how to.
Buildings. We shall be pleased to have your personal interest.
Should, with his ring-giving, favor Hengest's men.
With the coming of the spring-time the families left the old village.
Additional Indian MOUNDS will be greatly deplored by.
The best of braves of War-Danes, Hnaef, on the pile lay stark.
After traveling for many days they reached the borders.
Throughout Wisconsin. They have been in existence for a.
Do the Danemen honor each and every day.
The family of my ancestors chose the eagle to be their symbol.
Grove. We know that the demolition of some of these ancient.
And Danes with bairns of Jutemen should each rule half of all.
The tribe to separate, and each family to seek new homes.
Destroyed in the Agricultural College farm field adjoining the.
