JIITES, juts. A Low German tribe, closely associated with the Angles and Saxons in the conquest of England in the fifth century A.D. Their name suggests that of the northern penin sula of Denmark, and it is customary to trace them to that starting-point. Morley suggests, on the other hand, that Jutland is now occupied by Panes, and that men from that peninsula settling on the eastern coasts of England in the days of the Angles were called Danes, not Jutes. Moreover, towns in the Danish settlements have the ending 'by,' as Grimsby, Fotherbv, Ashby, etc.: but in the Jute region of Kent, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight there is not a place that has a name ending in 'by.' Bede divides the Teutonic conquerors of Eng land into Angles, Jutes, and Saxons, but Pro eopius in the sixth century uses the terms Angles, Saxons, and Frisians. Study leads to the con clusion that the invaders of the south of England, and those of the seaboard of the Scottish low lands, the Jutes and Frisians, were the same people.
It is only a short step from Frisians to For morians or Pomormns, and the Jutes are identi fied with the Teutonic rovers who from the coast of the Baltic pushed their conquests to the Shet lands, Orkneys, and Hebrides, landing finally on the Irish coast.
In recent years the name of Jute has come into prominence through studies of subracial types persisting in the actual populations of Europe, although historians had well-nigh lost sight of them as distinguished from their Angle and Saxon kindred. Following traditions there have been found around Canterbury in Kent, as well as on the Isle of Wight and in South Hants op posite, men and women with peculiarities in physiognomy which are thought to be due to the Jutish blond. Special marks of the Jutish fea tures consist in the form of the nose and mouth. The end of the nose is rounded off sharply, and the septum descends considerably below the line of the nostrils. The lower lip, more particularly, is thick and deep. The ,Jutish profile has a strong resemblance to that sculptured in the Assyrian marbles. The population in Friesland was not homogeneous in early times, and it is possible that the Jutes may have migrated to South Eng land in separate bodies, at first, like their neigh bors, the Angles. If so, these separate intru sions would go far to account for the perpetua tion of the peculiarities of this people in Eng land.