Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/61

61 (k-d 86)

A creature came     where many men sat at council     with wise hearts. It had one eye     and its ears were two; it had two feet     and twelve hundred heads, a back and a belly     and two hands, arms and shoulders,     one neck, and two sides.     Say what I’m called.

Wiht cwom gongan     þær weras sæton monige on mæðle     mode snottre hæfde an eage     ⁊ earan twa · ⁊ ii fet     xii hund heafda · hryc ⁊ wombe     ⁊ honda twa earmas ⁊ eaxle     anne sweoran ⁊ sidan twa     saga hwæt ic hatte

A One-Eyed Garlic Seller; or so it would seem from a hint in Symphosius 94.