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While it is commonplace to detect their influences in Kent (for example, the practice of Partible Inheritance known as Gavelkind ), the Jutes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight vanished, leaving only the slightest of traces. One recent scholar, Robin Bush, has 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 it was just the aristocracy who were wiped out. It is thought that others remained in their Continental homeland, and became the indigenous people of modern Jutland. If they are indeed the same as the Euthiones, they are mentioned in a poem by Venantius Fortunatus (583). JUTES AND GEATS Some authorities believe the Jutes are identical with the Geats (the "Jutish hypothesis"), a people who once lived in southern Sweden , such as the '' OED '', which speculatively identifies the Swedish Geats (through ''Eotas'', ''Iótas'', ''Iútan'' and ''Geátas'') with the Danish Jutes . However, in both Widsith and Beowulf , the two tribes are neatly distinguished. In Beowulf the Jutes appear as the ''Eotenas'' in the Finn passage (see Finnsburg Fragment ), making them a people distinct from the ''Geatas''. It may be that the two tribal names happened to be confused, which has happened, for example, in the sources about the death of the Swedish king Östen . EXTERNAL LINKS |