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Jutes

The Jutes were a Germanic people believed to be from what is now Jylland (Jutland) in modern Denmark. Some Jutes, along with the Angles, Saxons and other Germanic peoples went to England, although they are less well known than the Angles and Saxons. Others remained, and are the indigenous people of modern Jutland.

According to the Venerable Bede, the English Jutes settled in particular in Kent, Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight.

Some authorities believe the Jutes are identical with the Geats, a people who once lived in southern Sweden, such as the OED, which speculatively identifies the Swedish Geats (through Eotas, Iótas, Iútan and Geátas) with the Jutes.

However, in Beowulf the Jutes appear as the Eotenas in the Finn passage (see the fight at Finnsburg), making them a people distinct from the Geatas. It may be that the two tribal names happened to be confused, which has happened in, for example, the sources about the death of the Swedish king Östen.

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