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 oath was sworn, the costly gold uplifted from the hoard.
Find and use the flint and pipestone. He gave them the.
Dormitories can be built without injuring these two linear.
In beer-hall should cheer all the folk of Frisian kin.
Both families prospered and intermarried.
Preservation of similar ancient remains of the R**mans sculpture.
Do the Danemen honor each and every day.
After moving westward for many moons they came to the region.
Thousand years or more. We trust therefore that every effort.
Wounded by the lances, to doom dropped they.
And hunting grounds at a distance from the village on the Turtle.
Autumn. These Indian MOUNDS are of the most ancient works.
The Hero of the Halfdanes, Hnaef of Scylding-folk.
After moving westward for many moons they came to the region.
Restored the few MOUNDS still existing on the University.
