Jutes

The Jutes were a Germanic people who are believed to have originated from Jutland in modern Denmark and part of the Frisian coast. The Jutes, along with the Angles, Saxons and Frisians, were amongst the Germanic tribes who sailed across the North Sea to raid and eventually invade Great Britain from the late fourth century onwards, either displacing or destroying the native Celtic peoples there. According to the Venerable Bede, they ended up settling in Kent, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. There are a number of toponyms that attest to the presence of the Jutes in the area, such as Ytene, which Florence of Worcester states was the contemporary English name for the New Forest.

Related Topics:
Jutland - Denmark - Frisian - Angles - Saxons - Frisians - Germanic tribes - North Sea - Great Britain - Fourth century - Celt - Venerable Bede - Kent - Hampshire - Isle of Wight - Toponym - Florence of Worcester - New Forest

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While it is commonplace to detect their influences in Kent (for example, the practice of partible inheritance known as gavelkind), the Jutes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight vanished, leaving only the slightest of traces. One recent scholar, Robin Bush, has argued that the Jutes of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight became victims of a policy of ethnic cleansing by the West Saxons, although this has been the subject of debate amongst academics, with the counter-claim that it was just the aristocracy who were wiped out.

Related Topics:
Inheritance - Gavelkind - Ethnic cleansing - West Saxons

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It is thought that others remained in their continental homeland, and became the indigenous people of modern Jutland.

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If they are indeed the same as the Euthiones, they are mentioned in a poem by Venantius Fortunatus (583).

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