<P> Disagreeing with Bede, some historians identify the Jutes with the people called Eucii (or Saxones Eucii), who were evidently associated with the Saxons and dependents of the Franks in 536 . The Eucii may have been identical to an obscure tribe called the Euthiones (Ευθίωνες in Ancient Greek) and probably associated with the Saxons . The Euthiones are mentioned in a poem by Venantius Fortunatus (583) as being under the suzerainty of Chilperic I of the Franks . This identification would agree well with the later location of the Jutes in Kent, since the area just opposite to Kent on the European mainland (present - day Flanders) was part of Francia . Even if Jutes were present to the south of the Saxons in the Rhineland or near the Frisians, this does not contradict the possibility that they were migrants from Jutland . </P> <P> Another theory, known as the "Jutish hypothesis"--a term accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary--claims that the Jutes may be synonymous with the Geats of southern Sweden or their neighbours, the Gutes . The evidence adduced for this theory includes: </P> <Ul> <Li> primary sources referring to the Geats (Geátas) by alternative names such as Iútan, Iótas and Eotas; </Li> <Li> Asser in his Life of Alfred (893) identifies the Jutes with the Goths (in a passage claiming that Alfred the Great was descended, through his mother, Osburga, from the ruling dynasty of the Jutish kingdom of Wihtwara, on the Isle of Wight), and; </Li> <Li> the Gutasaga (13th Century) states that some inhabitants of Gotland left for mainland Europe (and large burial sites attributable to either Goths or Gepids have been found in the 19 . century near Willenberg, Prussia (after 1945 Wielbark in Poland). </Li> </Ul> <Li> primary sources referring to the Geats (Geátas) by alternative names such as Iútan, Iótas and Eotas; </Li>

Who were the jutes and where did they come from