To answer your question in short: Jutes are an ethnicity, Viking was an occupation. After the Jutes had migrated to Britain in the 5th century, the remaining Jutes were overthrown by the moving up Danes. When the Danes started their invasion of England 300 years later, the Jutes were highly assimilated.

Are Jutes Danes?

They were very similar but not identical by any means. Jutes came Jutland ( Denmark) before going to Britain while Danish tribes originated in Southern Sweden before moving south to Denmark. Danes were Northern Germanics while Jutes were Western Germanics.

Were the Angles and Jutes Vikings?

The main groups being Jutes from the Jutland peninsula (modern Denmark); Angles from Angeln in southwest Jutland and the Saxons from northwest Germany. … Like the Saxons before them, the Viking onslaught first started with a few bloody raids.