Saxons, along with Angles, Frisians and Jutes, invaded or migrated to the island of Great Britain ( Britannia ) around the time of the collapse of Roman authority in the west.

In the Early Middle Ages the river is believed to have been the border between the related Germanic tribes the Jutes and the Angles who during this period, along with the neighboring Saxons crossed the North Sea from this region and settled in England.

The old Scandinavian sagas, perhaps dating back to the times of the Angles and Jutes give the impression that Jutland has been divided into a northern and a southern part with the border running along the Kongeå River.

These records are in direct conflict with Bede, who states that the Isle of Wight was settled by Jutes, not Saxons ; the archaeological record is somewhat in favour of Bede on this.

The Jutes have also been identified with the Eotenas ( ēotenas ) involved in the Frisian conflict with the Danes as described in the Finnesburg episode in the poem Beowulf ( lines 1068 – 1159 ).

Disagreeing with Bede, some historians identify the Jutes with people called the Eucii ( or Saxones Eucii ) who were evidently associated with the Saxons and dependents of the Franks in 536.

This identification would agree well with the later location of the Jutes in Kent, since the area just opposite of Kent on the European mainland ( present-day Flanders ) was part of Francia.

Asser in his Life of Alfred claims that Alfred's mother, Osburga, was descended from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight, whom he identifies with the Goths.

Another modern hypothesis ( the so-called " Jutish hypothesis "), accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary, states that the Jutes are identical with the Geats, a people who once lived in southern Sweden.

One recent scholar, Robin Bush, even argued that the Jutes of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight became victims of a policy of ethnic cleansing by the West Saxons, although this has been the subject of debate amongst academics, with the counter-claim that only the aristocracy might have been wiped out.

* Vortigern, king of the Britons, forms an alliance with Hengist and Horsa, by tradition chieftains of the Jutes, who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain.

Of the German tribes that spread through Europe, the theorists identified that: the Burgundians, Franks, and Western Goths joined with the Gauls to make France ; the Lombards moved south and joined with the Italians ; The Jutes made Denmark ; The Angles made England ; The Flemings made Belgium ; other tribes made Holland.

The region was home to the Germanic people, the Angles, who, together with Saxons and Jutes, left their home to migrate to Britain in the 5th-6th centuries.

The languages of Germanic peoples gave rise to the English language ( the Angles, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes and possibly the Franks, who traded, fought with and lived alongside the Latin-speaking peoples of the Roman Empire in the centuries-long process of the Germanic peoples ' expansion into Western Europe during the Migration Period ).

This recalls the links with the ancient Kingdom, as both areas were settled predominantly by tribes of Jutes from the 5th century onwards.

Unfortunately, and foreseen by no one, when they arrive at Finn's stronghold they find that many of Finn's thanes are also Jutes, particularly one Garulf, who seems to be the rightful heir to the kingdom conquered by Hnæf's people ; and these Frisian Jutes are at blood feud with Hengest and his band, because Hengest supports the conquering Danes, if for no other reason.

) Finn gives the Danes a separate hall to dwell in for the winter, specifying that they shall share it with the sons of the Jutes ( meaning Hengest and his band.

While much of the county, including west Kent, was settled by the Angles and Saxons, a race known as the Jutes — of similar descent from the Germanic area of Europe – had already made east Kent their home, They regarded themselves as a separate kingdom with their own laws and customs.

This retelling of the popular legend eschews the use of magic ( as in T. H. White ’ s The Sword in the Stone ) to explain Arthur ’ s ascent to power and instead relies on the historical condition ( with some artistic licence ) of post-Roman Britain to support the theory that Arthur was meant to counter the anarchy left by the Roman departure from Britain in 410 AD and the subsequent colonization and invasion of Britain by various peoples from Northwestern Europe, including the Saxons, Jutes, Franks, and Angles.

It is possible that the Jutes are a related people to the Geats and a Gothic people as it is mentioned in the Gutasaga that some inhabitants of Gotland left for mainland Europe.

It was founded at an unknown date in the 5th century by Jutes, members of a Germanic people from continental Europe, some of whom settled in Britain after the withdrawal of the Romans.

The Suebian language developed into Old High German, while the Angles and Jutes were among the speakers of Old Saxon.

Angles, Saxons and Jutes throughout England

The invaders — Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians — gained control of parts of England, but lost a major battle at Mons Badonicus ( the location of which is not known ).

The newcomers included Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians.

The first phase Migration Period displacement from between CE 300 and 500 included relocation of the Goths ( Ostrogoths and Visigoths ), Vandals, Franks, various other Germanic people ( Burgundians, Lombards, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Suebi, Alemanni, Varangians and Normans ), Alans and numerous Slavic tribes.

Thus the modern population of Hungary do not feel that they belong in the Western Siberia that the Hungarian Magyars left 12 centuries ago ; and the English descendants of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes do not yearn to reoccupy the plains of Northwest Germany.

The newcomers are known to have included Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians, and there is evidence of other groups as well.

Collectively known as the " Anglo-Saxons ", these were mainly Saxons from Northern Germany, and Angles and Jutes from the Jutland peninsula.

In his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Bede records that the first chieftains among the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in England were said to be Hengist and Horsa.

Afterward, more people arrived in Britain from " the three powers of Germany ; the Old Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes ".

The East Angles, Middle Angles, Mercians and " all those north of Humber " arrived from the region of Anglia ( a peninsula in Southern Schleswig, Northern Germany ) " which has ever since remained waste between the Jutes and Saxons ".

The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutæ ( pronounced ) were a Germanic people who, according to Bede, were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of their time, the other two being the Saxons and the Angles.

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.

The culture of the Jutes of Kent shows more signs of Roman, Frankish, and Christian influence than that of the Angles or Saxons.

The Franks, Alemanni, and the Burgundians eventually all ended up in northern Gaul while the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes settled in Britain.

* Emperor Honorius sends his Rescript ( diplomatic letters ) to the Romano-British magistrates, where he explains that the cities in Britain must provide for their own defence against the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons.

* Angles, Saxons and Jutes invade Britain, marking the beginning of the Old English period ( approximate date ).

Although Kent was the first part of the British mainland to be conquered and settled by the invading Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the middle of the 5th century AD onwards, after the departure of the Romans, it was not until the late 7th century that the spelling Folcanstan appears.

The depredations of the Picts from the north and Scotti ( Scots ) from Ireland forced the Britons to seek help from pagan Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who then decided to settle in Britain.

He also gives names in the Historia to the leaders of the Saxons, Hengest and Horsa ; and specifically identifying their tribes, the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes ( H. E., 1. 14, 15 ).

The monk Bede, who wrote in the 8th century, considered the Mercians to be descended from the Angles, one of the invading groups ; the Saxons and Jutes settled in the south of Britain, while the Angles settled in the north.