Yngwe!
Ja, jag försökte nog hitta argument för Beowulf som Jute lite väl okritiskt. Å andra sidan kan man fortsätta med att argumentera för att Beowulf är Jute genom att studera andra källor än Vaux:
http://www.carlanayland.org/essays/eotens.htm
“'Eoten' is cognate with the Old Norse 'jotun', which occurs frequently in the Norse legends and is usually translated into modern English as 'giant'. However, the Beowulf poet seems to have thought of 'eotens' as somehow different from the creatures called by the Latin-derived name 'gigantas', since they are given separately in the same list.”
“Eotens, on the other had, seem to be a much more earthbound sort of creature, living in unpleasant corners of the same world that humans live in.”
Om man nu tittar på Vaux angående avfolkning av Jutland, så kanske de var ”living in unpleasant corners of the same world that humans live in”:
“Considering the documented behavior of the Cimbri of Jutland in earlier days (e.g., 120 BC),
it is possible that sometime before the Viking invasions (these beginning about 789 AD) the
entire tribe deserted its homeland and migrated en masse leaving no or few descendants in
Jutland.”