著者

岩谷 道夫

出版者

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部

雑誌

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部紀要 (ISSN:13493043)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, pp.21-39, 2014-03

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The Jutes and the Frisians were the old Germanic tribes who had been described in the works of the Roman historians. We can also find those two Germanic tribes in the Finn Episode in Beowulf, the largest epic in old English and in the Fight at Finnsburh, one of the oldest poems written in English. The story in those old English works is about the battle between the Frisians and the Danes, and the Jutes had an important role in it. At first the Jutes had inhabited Jutland, which means the land of the Jutes. But later, in the old English poems mentioned above, they lived in the vicinity of the Frisians. Why they can be found there is a difficult problem which has been argued by many scholars. Fr. Klaeber is one of the most eminent researchers of Beowulf in the 20th century and his third edition of Beowulf is thought to be the most excellent one which has ever been published. He also argues on the Jutish problem and presents some important comments about it. This paper first aims at searching for the territories of the Jutes and the Frisians in the works of the Roman historians and the old English poems. And it also investigates the view of Fr. Klaeber through his comments and map in his third edition. It finally attempts to pursue the true history of the Jutes suggested in the battle between the Frisians and the Danes.