Jutes

Jutes, early Germanic tribe of Denmark and northern Germany that, according to the Anglo-Saxon historian the Venerable Bede, participated in the conquest of south-eastern Britain during the 5th century ad. These people were the inhabitants of Jutland. Their territory bordered that of the Saxons, who, with the Angles, also settled Britain and drove the Britons westward into present-day Wales. Through assimilation, the Jutes gradually lost their identity as a people, and by the 8th century the term Jute had almost completely disappeared from the English language. See also Hengist and Horsa.