A similar process, perhaps in connexion with the Frankish conquest of parts of Germany, possibly had been gone through in many continental districts. Mr. Elton traces the right of the youngest in the north-east corner of France and in Brabant, in Friesland, in Westphalia, in Silesia, in Wirtemberg, in the Odenwald and district north of Lake Constance, in Suabia, in Elsass, in the Grisons. It is found also in [p354] the island of Borneholm, though it seems to be absent in Denmark and on the Scandinavian mainland.[533] Attention has been called to this curious survival of the right of the youngest because it forms a possible link between the Welsh, English, and continental systems of settlements in tribal households. * * * * * We now pass to the more direct consideration of the local names with the supposed patronymic suffix. «Wide extension and meaning of the patronymic suffix 'ing,' &c.» These peculiar local names are scattered over a wide area; the suffix varying from the English _ing_ with its plural '_ingas_,' the German _ing_ or _ung_ with its plural _ingas_, _ingen_, _ungen_, _ungun_, and the French '_ign_' or _igny_, to the Swiss[534] equivalent _ikon_, the Bohemian _ici_,[535] and the wider Slavonic _itz_ or _witz_. It seems to be clear that the termination _ing_, in its older plural form _ingas_, in Anglo-Saxon, not by any means always,[536] but still in a large number of cases, had a _patronymic_ significance. We have the evidence of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle itself that if _Baldo_ were the name of the parent, his children or heirs would in Anglo-Saxon be called _Baldings_[537] (Baldingas). There is also evidence that the oldest historical form of settlement in Bohemian and Slavic districts [p355] was in the tribal or joint household--the undivided family sometimes for many generations herding together in the same homestead (_dĕdiny_).[538] And the number of local names ending in _ici_, or _owici_, changing in later times into _itz_ and _witz_, taken together with the late prevalence of the undivided household in these semi-Slavonic regions, so far as it goes, confirms the connexion of the patronymic termination with the holding of the co-heirs of an original holder.[539] The geographical distribution of local names with the patronymic termination is shown on the same map as that on which were marked the position of the 'hams' and 'heims.' «In England.» First, as regards England, the map will show that in the distribution of places mentioned in the Domesday survey ending in _ing_, the largest proportion occurs east of a line drawn from the Wash to the Isle of Wight: just as in the case of the 'hams,' only that in Sussex the greatest number of 'ings' occurs instead of in Essex.