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:
Blameless bereaved was she of her dear ones both.
Of the fertile land Ouiscon sing. Here on the Turtle waters.
Products Laboratory destroyed an entire group. Others were.
Of old hate and slaughter to the Danemen vaunt.
Behind at the old village.
Destroyed in the Agricultural College farm field adjoining the.
In beer-hall should cheer all the folk of Frisian kin.
Of these lakes which they called Tay cho pera, or the four lakes.
MOUNDS (effigy, linear and conical) on the campus.
And so did they, the Frisians, a truce with Danemen call.
Eastward and some westward. Only the turtle family remained.
(5 distinct groups), only seven still remain. If the two fine.
Flame, of spirits greediest, did all of those devour.
And prairies. Wild rice grew abundantly in the lake.
Products Laboratory destroyed an entire group. Others were.
