http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutes
The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutae were a Germanic people who, according to Bede, were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of the time. They are believed to have originated from Jutland (called Iutum in Latin) in modern Denmark, Southern Schleswig (South Jutland) and part of the East Frisian coast.
Bede places the homeland of the Jutes on the other side of the Angles relative to the Saxons, which would mean the northern part of the Jutland Peninsula. Tacitus portrays a people called the Eudoses living in the north of Jutland and these may have been the later Iutae. The Jutes have also been identified with the Eotenas (iotenas) involved in the Frisian conflict with the Danes as described in the Finnesburg episode in the poem Beowulf (lines 1068-1159). Others have interpreted the iotenas as jotuns (”ettins” in English), meaning giants, or as a kenning for “enemies”.
i did look it up last night....one of the sons conquered East Anglia and took York in late 800s
thrown in an adder pit (not cooked) and his last defiant words were: (Ragnar maybe)
” piglets will grunt when they hear of how it’s fared for the old boar”
hence the Blood Eagle revenge...I know I don’t need to explain that on you probably already know and that they did
they is legend about how all sons reacted so violently to the old man’s execution that they struck serious fear even in their own tribes
one of the sons...the youngest ...his spawn eventually took Normandy from Philip in France and we now how that ended for the merciful ol Saxons
When I think of where Saxons come from I always think of Holstein cows and Atom Heart Mother
the good thing about all this was it set the stage at the time for Alfred’s consolidation of territory in response as young man too
btw, this Norse Saga stuff is bound to have some hyperbole in it