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Guindal Windle. 



Inghem Inghem. 



Oye Eye. 



Wimille Windmill. 



Grisendale Grisdale. 



Other familiar English forms as Graywick, Bruquedal, Mar- 

 becq, Longfosse, Dalle, Vendal, Salperwick, Fordebecques, Staple, 

 Crehem, Pihem, Dohem, Roqueton, Hazelbrouck, Roebeck, and the 

 river Slack, are to be met with everywhere. Twenty-two of the 

 names have the characteristic suffix, ton, and upwards of one hun- 

 dred end in ham, hem, or hen. There are also more than one hun- 

 dred patronimics ending in ing. A comparison of these patronymics 

 with those found in England proves, beyond a doubt, that the colo- 

 nization of this part of France must have been effected by men bear- 

 ing the clan-names which belonged to the Teutonic families which 

 settled on the opposite coast. More than eighty per cent, of these 

 French patronymics are also found in England. Thus we have : 



In France. In England. • 



Alencthun Allington. 



Bazinham Bassingham. 



Balinghen Ballingham. 



Berlinghen Birlingham. 



Colincthun Collington. 



Maninghem Manningham. 



Todincthun Toddington. 



Velinghen Wellingham. 



Further to the southwest we have Douvres in the Saxon shore 

 near Bayeux, which reminds us of Dover, and within a short dis- 

 tance the people formerly known as the Parisii. Now P, according 

 to Grimm's law, is interchangeable in Latin with F, so that we are 

 thus led to identify the Parisii with the Frisii or Frisians. A third 

 settlement of Saxons took place in the neighbourhood of Caen, and 

 extended as far as the islands at the mouth of the Loire, where the 

 population still retains the distinctive outward marks of Saxon 

 blood. 



By the aid of the departmental maps of France we can still trace 

 the sharply defined boundaries of the Saxon and Danish districts. 

 Thus it would be seen that in the Eure and Seine Inferieure depart- 

 ments, where the Danish names are thickly clustered, hardly a single 



