The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutae were a
Germanic people who are believed to have originated from
Jutland (called Iutum in
Latin) in modern
Denmark and part of the
East Frisian coast. While
Bede places the homeland of the Jutes on the other side of the
Angles relative to the
Saxons, they have nonetheless been identified with people called the Eucii (or Saxones Eucii) who were evidently associated with the Saxons and dependents of the
Franks in 536. A map of
Tacitus' portrays a people called the Eudoses living in the north of Jutland and these may have been the later Iutae. Still others have preferred the identification with the Eotenas (ēotenas) involved in the Frisian conflict with the
Danes as described in the
Finnesburg episode in the poem
Beowulf (lines 1068–1159). Others have interpreted the ēotenas as giants, as Jotuns ("ogres" in modern English), or as a
kenning for "enemies". Yet another possible identification is with the obscure tribe called the Euthiones and probably associated with the Saxons. They are mentioned in a poem by
Venantius Fortunatus (583) as being under the suzerainty of
Chilperic I of the Franks. Even if Jutes were present to the south of the Saxons in the
Rhineland or near the Frisians, this does not omit the possibility that they themselves were migrants from Jutland.
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(n. pl.)
Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.
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