The Jutes settled in and near Kent, but the dialect for the region is known as Kentish, not Jutish. |
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Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany. |
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Subsequent kings are unknown until the final Jutish king, Arwald, who was probably born in the mid 7th Century. |
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The majority of scholars believe that the Anglii lived on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula. |
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Even the very name, Hamlet, constitutes controversy in itself, occurring from 10th century Jutish Amlethoe, then as Amlethus of Saxo. |
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Which legendary brothers led the first Jutish settlers to come to Britain in the fifth century? |
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Stenton noted that such placenames were apparently restricted to Saxon and Jutish territory and not found in Anglian areas. |
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The remaining Jutish population in Jutland assimilated in with the settling Danes. |
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The Quoit Brooch Style has been regarded as Jutish, from the 5th century. |
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There is also evidence that the Haestingas people who settled in the Hastings area of Sussex, in the 6th century, may also have been Jutish in origin. |
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