[22] A corresponding name may be the Dutch Tadema, if _ma_, as is supposed, stands for _man_. [23] Probably from the mythological kettle of the Æsir. [24] So many different words might be suggested in this case that the meaning must be left uncertain. It is most probable that there may be an admixture. [25] Three different words found in ancient names intermix so as to be hardly separable, viz., Anglo-Saxon _wiht_, strength or courage; _wid_, wood; and _wit_, wisdom. [26] The name of Wigmore Street seems to imply a man's name _Wigmore_, but I do not know of it at present. [27] Hence probably the name of the Eows, a tribe or family mentioned in the "Traveller's Song." Also probably the name Eawa, in the genealogy of the Mercian kings. The stem is represented in our names by _Ewe_, _Yeo_, and _Yea_, and we have also the patronymic _Ewing_ (Euing in _Domesday_). CHAPTER IV. THE MEN WHO CAME IN WITH THE SAXONS. The researches of Mr. Kemble, supplemented by those of Mr. Taylor, in connection with the early Saxon settlements in England, have an important bearing upon the subject of our existing surnames. Mr. Kemble was the first to call attention to the fact that very many of the names of places in England, as disclosed by the forms in which these names appear in ancient charters, consist of a personal name in a patronymic form. Some of these names consist simply of a nominative plural in _ingas_, as Æscingas, the sons or descendants of Æsc, others of a genitive plural in _inga_, with _ton_, _ham_, &c., appended, as in Billingatun, the town of the Billings, _i.e._ sons or descendants of Billa. These he takes to denote tribal or family settlements, forming the Anglo-Saxon "mark," consisting of a certain area of cultivated land, surrounded by a belt of pasture land enjoyed by all the settlers in common, the whole inclosed by the forest.