ra."

From the Jutes came the inhabitants of Kent and of Wight, that is, the
race that now dwells in Wight, and that tribe amongst the West-Saxons
which is yet called the Jute tribe. From the Old-Saxons came the
East-Saxons, and South-Saxons, and West-Saxons. From the Angles, land
(which has since always stood waste betwixt the Jutes and Saxons) came
the East-Angles, Middle-Angles, Mercians, and all the Northumbrians.

s. 10. A portion of these extracts will now be submitted to criticism; that
portion being the statement concerning the _Jutes_.

The words _usque hodie--Jutarum natio nominatur_ constitute contemporary
and unexceptionable evidence to the existence of a people with a name like
that of the _Jutes_ in the time of Beda--or A.D. 731.

The exact name is not so certain. The term _Jutnacyn_ from the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle is in favour of the notion that it began with the sounds of j and
u, in other words that it was _Jut_.

But the term _Geatum_, which we find in Alfred, favours the form in g
followed by ea.

Thirdly, the forms _Wihtware_, and _Wihttan_, suggest the likelihood of the
name being _Wiht_.

Lastly, there is a passage in Asserius[11] which gives us the form
_Gwith_--"Mater" (of Alfred the Great) "quoque ejusdem Osburgh nominabatur,
religiosa nimium foemina, nobilis ingenio, nobilis et genere; quae erat
filia Oslac famosi pincernae Aethelwulf regis; qui Oslac Gothus erat
natione, ortus enim erat de Gothis et Jutis; de semine scilicet Stuf et
Wihtgur, duorum fratrum et etiam comitum, qui accept[^a] potestate Vectis
insulae ab avunculo suo Cerdic rege et Cynric filio suo, consobrino eorum,
paucos Britones ejusdem insulae accolas, quos in e[^a] invenire potuerant,
in loco qui dicitur, _Gwithgaraburgh_ occiderunt, caeteri enim accolae
ejusdem insulae ante sunt occisi aut exules aufugerant."--Asserius, "De
Gestis Alfredi Regis."

Now, _Gwith-gara-burgh_ means the _burg_ or _town of_ the _With-ware_;[12]
these being, undoubtedly, no Germans at all, but the native Britons of the
Isle of Wight (Vectis), whose designation in Latin would be _Vecticolae_ or
_Vectienses_.

This being the case, how can they be descended from German or Danish
_Jutes_? and how can we reconcile the statement of Beda with that of Asser?

s. 11. The answer to this will be given after another fact has been
considered.

Precisely the same confusion between the sounds of w, j, g, io, eae, u, and
i, which