JUTTAR became modern Danish Jyder and Dutch strandjutter, which means “beach thief”, perhaps due to the bad connotations that collecting things on the beach developed; or perhaps it was always despised. There is still a Jutish tradition of searching beaches with metal scanners. An alternative meaning of JUTTA was possibly “burn” or “polish”. Danish Bernsten, from Fryas BÀRNSTÉN, is short for Brændesten “burnstone”. When amber is burnt, it gives off a pleasant scent. To make it into jewellery, it is burnt and then grinded and polished.Those who lived in the east of the Denmarks were called Jutters (JUTTAR), because almost all they did was to ‘jut’ (or: collect) (JUTTA) amber (BÀRNSTÉN) on the shores.
Jote (Old Norse jōtar) is an old way to say Jyde. It was also spelt Jotne. Old Danish historians equated them with the Jotnar, the giant supernatural folk of Norse Mythology, in modern Danish Jætter. They were considered the oldest people in the North (of Finnish ancestry), as opposed to the Goths, the Fryas people in the North (source); although the OLB describes the Fryas as the oldest inhabitants. Perhaps the Far North was meant, as the OLB says that modern Finland was hardly populated before the arrival of the Finns.
Jote could also mean Western Jutes, whereas the Goths would mean the Eastern Jutes; maybe there is an ancient relationship between the Jutes and Goths yet to be researched, similar to the ancient relationship between the Finns and Fryas? Side note: The Goths were likely named after a woman named Goda.
The Jutes described in ch. 47.06 are the ancient Jutes that still lived in the Baltic. Ch. 145.25 describes how they ended up in modern Jutland:
The OLB tells us that the Jutes and Lets were old neighbours. Let is probably related to Latvia (Letland in Danish and Dutch) and Lithuania (Lettow in Old Saxon). Estonia is in Danish and Dutch called Estland, or “Eastland”; and the Jutes lived in the “east of the Denmarks”. Perhaps the Jutes' homeland was roughly modern Estonia, and the Lets' homeland roughly modern Latvia and Lithuania. Because the Estonian language is part of the Finnic language family, the Jutes in Eastland probably mixed with the Finns. This mixing might have created the association between Jutes, Jotnar and Finns. The Jotnar lived in Jotunheim in the far north and were associated with the supernatural, similar to how Finnish mythology is animistic.After the great flood of which my father wrote, many Jutters (JUTTAR) and Lets (LÉTNE) had been carried out of the ‘Balda’ (Baltic) or ‘Angry’ Sea with the ebb. Near Kate’s Gate, floating in their boats with the ice, they ran aground at the Denmarks, and there they remained. Because they did not see any people there, they took possession of the land and named it Jutterland, after themselves. Later, many Denmarkers did return from the highlands, but they resettled more to the south. And when the navigators who had not perished came back, they joined together and went to the Sealands, or ‘Ealands’. Through this turn of events, the Jutters were able to hold the land whither Wralda had carried them.
