It is worthy of notice that names ending in ingham or ington are not confined so closely to this district, but are spread much more evenly all over England.[540] Further, it will be observed that the counties where the names ending in ing occur without a suffix are remarkably coincident with those where Mr. Elton has found survivals of the right of the youngest, i.e. the old 'Saxon shore.' [p356]
In Picardy.
Next, as to the opposite coast of Picardy, the ings and hems are alike, for very nearly all the hems in the Survey of the Abbey of St. Bertin of A.D. 850 are preceded by ing, i.e. they are inghems. The proportion was found to be sixty per cent.[541] In this north-east corner of France the right of the youngest, as we have seen, also survives.
In the Moselle valley and round Troyes and Langres.
There are also many patronymic names of places in the Moselle valley and in Champagne around Troyes and Langres.[542]
In Frisia.
Next, as to Frisia, eight per cent. of the names mentioned in the Fulda records end in 'inga,' two and a half per cent. in ingaheim, and three per cent. in ing with some other suffix, making thirteen and a half per cent. in all. In Friesland also there are survivals of the right of the youngest.
In Germany most densely in the old Roman provinces of the 'Agri Decumates.'
Over North Germany, outside the Roman limes, the proportion is much less, shading off in the Fulda records from six to three, two, and one per cent.
But the greatest proportion occurs within the Roman limes in the valleys of the Neckar and the Upper Danube, where (according to the Fulda records) it rises to from twenty to twenty-four per cent.,[543] shading off to ten per cent. towards the Maine, and in the present Elsass, and to nine per cent. southwards in the neighbourhood of St. Gall.[544] [p357]