Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/35

A Bell speaks, calling the man who rings it servant and master; tells how it rouses the sleepers on a cold wintry morning. The &ldquo;bound rings,&rdquo; e.g., is the &ldquo;bell.&rdquo; There is something a little wrong in l. 8, perhaps an omission which would make the speech clearer; and &ldquo;burst&rdquo; is not normally transitive in Anglo-Saxon. Mrs. von Erhardt-Siebold (PMLA [1946], 620–23) argues for Handmill, and gives a diagram.