Jutes

The Jutes (Latin Eutii, Euthiones, altn. Jotar, Old-English. Yte, Eotas ) are a Germanic tribe, who had his home on the Jutland peninsula and is probably identical with the traditional in Roman sources people of Eudosen. With migration of the Jutes, who went along with the Angles and Saxons to England, arrived in the 5th century northern Germanic in the area. The Jutes were partially on in them, some they settled in Southern Denmark to the Eider in Schleswig -Holstein.

Together with the Angles and Saxons, the Jutes involved in the conquest of Britain and had considerable share in the formation of the Old English language. Jutland estates in England were mainly Kent and the Isle of Wight.

Etymology

The word Jute (adjective jütisch ) referred to in recent times, the inhabitants of Jutland (Danish Jyde, jysk < Jydsk ), for example, in saying God will prevent us, that we will not Jutes, which has its origin in the unexplained in the 19th century Schleswig- has Holstein question. Today, however, can also be used Jutlanders or jütländisch.

Legend

After some conjecture in the Jutes the Joeten recognize, those giants, the Ase Thor takes his Ostfahrten against in the songs of the Nordic Edda. Thus, the assumption is connected, the gods Asgard had lain in today flooded by the North Sea area between Helgoland and eiderstedt Peninsula and is tantamount to Basilea, the royal city of the lost Atlantis.