Editing Geats (section)

====Jutish hypothesis====
There is a hypothesis that the Jutes also were Geats, and which was proposed by Pontus Fahlbeck in 1884. According to this hypothesis the Geats would have not only resided in southern Sweden but also in [[Jutland]], where [[Beowulf]] would have lived.

The Geats and the Jutes are mentioned in ''Beowulf'' as different tribes, and whereas the Geats are called ''gēatas'', the Jutes are called ''ēotena'' (genitive) or ''ēotenum'' (dative).<ref name="Nerman1925">{{cite book |last1=Nerman |first1=Birger |author1-link=Birger Nerman |title=Det Svenska Rikets Uppkomst |date=1925 |publisher=Ivar Haeggström |location=Stockholm |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UiYrzQEACAAJ |access-date=24 December 2020 |archive-date=20 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420104219/https://books.google.com/books?id=UiYrzQEACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|108}} Moreover, the Old English poem ''[[Widsith]]'' also mentions both Geats and Jutes, and it calls the latter ''ȳtum''.<ref name="Nerman1925" />{{rp|108}} However, Fahlbeck proposed in 1884 that the Gēatas of ''Beowulf'' referred to Jutes and he proposed that the Jutes originally also were Geats like those of southern Sweden.<ref name="Nerman1925" />{{rp|109}} This theory was based on an Old English translation of [[Venerable Bede]]'s ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'' attributed to [[Alfred the Great]] where the Jutes (''iutarum'', ''iutis'') once are rendered as ''gēata'' (genitive) and twice as ''gēatum'' (dative)<ref name="Nerman1925" />{{rp|108–109}} (see e.g. the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary|OED]]'' which identifies the Geats through ''Eotas'', ''Iótas'', ''Iútan'' and ''Geátas''). Fahlbeck did not, however, propose an etymology for how the two ethnonyms could be related.<ref name="Nerman1925" />{{rp|109}}

Fahlbeck's theory was refuted by Schück who in 1907 noted that another Old English source, the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'', called the Jutes ''īutna'', ''īotum'' or ''īutum''.<ref name="Nerman1925" />{{rp|109}} Moreover, Schück pointed out that when Alfred the Great's translation mentions the Jutes for the second time (book IV, ch. 14(16)) it calls them ''ēota'' and in one manuscript ''ȳtena''.<ref name="Nerman1925" />{{rp|110}} Björkman proposed in 1908 that Alfred the Great's translation of Jutes as Geats was based on a confusion between the West Saxon form ''Geotas'' ("Jutes") and ''Gēatas'' ("Geats").<ref name="Nerman1925" />{{rp|110}}

As for the origins of the ethnonym ''Jute'', it may be a secondary formation of the toponym Jutland, where ''jut'' is derived from a [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] root *''eud'' meaning "water".<ref>{{cite web| last = Hellquist| first = Elof| title = Jut-, Jute| work = Svensk etymologisk ordbok| publisher = [[Project Runeberg]]| year = 1922| url = https://runeberg.org/svetym/0372.html| access-date = 21 November 2007| language = sv| archive-date = 24 November 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071124055533/http://runeberg.org/svetym/0372.html| url-status = live}}</ref>