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:
Then did they swear a peace-pact, unalterable for both.
Soon the lands on the Turtle waters were no longer sufficient.
University of Wisconsin campus through the erection of.
And Finn, the son of Folcwald, should, with gifts of pay.
The family having the panther as its manitou journeyed eastward.
Of Wisconsin to spare these MOUNDS in the building of.
Though Danes, bereft of ruler, in their need now were.
Of this crystal lake, at the foot of this hill. In the long ago.
Dear Mr. Kirchoff: I am in receipt of your letter of September 2.
And Danes with bairns of Jutemen should each rule half of all.
The tribe to separate, and each family to seek new homes.
Warning of the threatened destruction of several of the.
And if then any Frisian should by foemen's taunt.
Fish in the streams and fruits and roots on the hills.
By thousands of people. We have long made use of them as.
