JUTES, or JUTS, one of the Low German tribes who share in the occupation and conquest of England in the 5th century A.D. They came from the European continent but from just what part of its western coast is not certain. It has been customary to identify their original habitat with that of modern Jutland. It is contended, however, by some investigators that the Jutes spoke quite a different tongue dialectically from that of the people of modern Jutland, which is Danish. An attempt has been made to identify the Jutes with the Frisians and to thus reconcile the apparently conflicting statements of Bede, who states that the invading tribes of England were Angles, Jutes and Saxons; and of Procopius who as serts that they were Angles, Saxons and Frisians. Modern research has attempted, with more or less satisfactory results, to identify the Jutes, with the roving Low German bands who, spreading over the North Sea and adjacent islands and British coast to the west, took pos session of much of the south of England, parts of the Lowlands of Scotland, the Shetland, Ork ney and Hebrides islands. The same investiga
tion identifies them with Teutonic bands that landed, about the same time, on the Irish coast. Efforts have also been expended in attempting to prove the persistence of the Jute type in southern England and the Lowlands of Scot land to-day, as distinct from other English types, existing or supposed to still exist from the days of the Germanic and other tribal invasions, occupations and conquests. It has been claimed by investigators that the traditions of the settlement of Jutes around Canterbury in Kent, on the Isle of Wight and in South Hants are still sustained by the presence in these regions of physical types, in certain ways distinct from those of neighboring districts. Consult Ripley, W. Z.,