rather specially common among the Frisians. Now it will be found on comparing the names of our ancient settlers with the Frisian names past and present cited by Outzen and Wassenberg, that there is a very strong family likeness between them, though we need not take it to amount to more than this, that the Frisian names may be taken as a type of the kind of names prevalent among the other neighbouring Low German tribes, until it can be more distinctly shown that there were settlements made by the Frisians themselves. And I have brought these names into the comparison simply as being the nearest representatives that I can find. Notwithstanding the complete and valuable tables drawn up by Mr. Taylor for the purpose of comparing the Anglo-Saxon settlements with those of Germany, I have thought it useful to supplement them by another confined exclusively to the names drawn from ancient German records, and therefore, so far as they go, entirely trustworthy. And I take the opportunity to compare our existing surnames with these ancient names thus shown to be common to the great Teutonic family. In the following table I have given then, first the Anglo-Saxon names from Kemble's lists, then the corresponding Old German from that of Foerstemann, with the district in which it is found, and, wherever identified, the existing name of the place, then names corresponding from the _Liber Vitæ_ or elsewhere to show continued Anglo-Saxon use, with also Frisian names as already mentioned, and finally, the existing English surnames with which I compare them. It will be seen that these surnames in not a few cases retain an ancient vowel-ending in _a_, _i_, or _o_, as explained in a preceding chapter. _THE EARLY SAXON SETTLEMENTS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF GERMANY._ Anglo-Saxon. German. Locality (L.V.), Liber Vitæ. English in Germany. (F.), Frisian. Surnames. Aldingas} Aldinge {Now Aldingen,} {Alda (L.V.),} {_Allday_, _Allt_, Oldingas} {in Würtemburg} { Alte (F.) } { _Old_, _Olding_. Æceringas[30] Aguringas {Now Egringen} Aker (L.V.) _Ager_, _Acres_. { in Bavaria} Ælingas Allingen Bavaria {Alli (L.V.),} _Alley_, _Allo_. { Alle (F.) } Ælfingas} Albungen Hesse Cassell Alef (F.) {_Aulph_, _Alpha_, Ælpingas} { _Elvy_. Æfeningas {Heveningare Appenzell Afun (L.V.) _Heaven? Evening_. { marca Antingas Endinga {Now Endingen,} Anta (A.S.) {_And_, _Andoe_, { in Baden } { _Hand_. Æscingas Esginga ..... Æsc (A.S.) _Ask_, _Ashe_. Ætingas Adinga Pruss. Saxony {Atta (A.S.),} _Hatt_. { Atte (F.) }