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), Leonard's personal experience narrative of taking part in archaeological fieldwork with Charles E. Brown at an Indigenous Ho-Chunk mound group on the shore of Lake Mendota, in an unpublished manuscript of an autobiographical case study located in the University of Wisconsin—Madison Archives (1920), and "Governors Island," a Ho-Chunk narrative of Lake Mendota by a storyteller once known, collected by Brown in Lake Mendota Indian Legends (1927).
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:
Blew battle-grim against us; fierce were the floods we passed.
Living in the secluded cottage with my parents. On a hot morning.
Lake to retain their good will. When the Earthmaker created.
The mighty Mere-Beast foundered through this hand of mine.
Like any man under a strain but not broken. I was now.
Tobacco offerings were formerly made on the waters of the.
The mighty Mere-Beast foundered through this hand of mine.
With a close friend down to the lower end of the big lake.
Tobacco offerings were formerly made on the waters of the.
My corslet gold-adorned. Me bottom-ward did wrest.
Exhausted as I was, though I felt no particular physical.
The earth he put four water spirits under it to keep it from.
Aplenty hast thou prated, beer-drunken as thou be.
(Definite object, as my friend was a professional Indianologist).
Located there are probably effigies of Thunderbirds.
