While then England received all the names formed from peoples throughout the Teutonic area, the Goth, the Vandal, the Bavarian, the Hun, and the Fin, in the names of men, there was one such stem which she had and which the rest of Germany had not, for she alone was neighbour to the Pict. Perhaps I should qualify this statement so far as the Old Saxons of the seaboard are concerned, for they were also neighbours, though as far as we know, the Pict did not figure in their names of men. From the stem _pect_ the Anglo-Saxons had a number of names, as Pecthun or Pehtun, Pecthath, Pectgils, Pecthelm, Pectwald, Pectwulf, all formed in accordance with the regular Teutonic system, but none of them found elsewhere than in Anglo-Saxon England. Of these names we may have one, Pecthun, in our surname _Picton_, perhaps also the other form Pehtun in _Peyton_ or _Paton_. The Anglo-Saxons no doubt aspirated the _h_ in Pehtun, but we seem in such cases either to drop it altogether, or else to represent it by a hard _c_, according perhaps as it might have been more or less strongly aspirated. Indeed the Anglo-Saxons themselves would seem to have sometimes dropped it altogether, if the name Piott, in a will of Archbishop Wulfred, A.D. 825, is the same word (which another name Piahtred about the same period would rather seem to indicate). And this suggests that our name _Peat_ may be one of its present representatives. We have again a name _Picture_, which might represent an Anglo-Saxon Pecther (_heri_, warrior) not yet turned up, but a probable name, the compound being a very common one. I do not think it necessary to go into the case of any other name-stem which I do not find except among the Anglo-Saxons, inasmuch as, there being in their case no such reason for the restriction as in that to which I have been referring, it may only be that they have not as yet been disinterred. FOOTNOTES: [28] From a similar origin is the name of the Scandinavian Vikings, Vik-ing, from _vik_, a bay. [29] _Archæological Journal._ [30] The reader must bear in mind that Ang.-Sax. _æ_ is pronounced as _a_ in "ant." [31] I take the word contained herein to be "ganz," an ancient stem in names. [32] Properly, I think, "Mædlingas," as it has nothing to do with Ang.-Sax. "mægd," _maid_. [33] The same, I take it, as the "Myrgingas" in the _Traveller's Tale_. [34] Properly, I take it, "Trumingas," Ang.-Sax. "_trum_" firm, strong. CHAPTER V. MEN'S NAMES IN PLACE-NAMES.