[661] The Heroic Legends of Denmark, New York, 1919, p. 32 (footnote).
[662] Ibid. p. 39.
[663] Thus, much space has been devoted to discussing whether "Gotland," in the eleventh century Cotton MS of Alfred's Orosius, signifies Jutland. I believe that it does; but fail to see how it can be argued from this that Alfred believed the Jutes to be "Geatas." Old English had no special symbol for the semi-vowel J; so, to signify Jōtland, Alfred would have written "Geotland" (Sievers, Gram. §§ 74, 175). Had he meant "Land of the Geatas" he would have written "Geataland" or "Geatland." Surely "Gotland" is nearer to "Geotland" than to "Geatland."
[664] P.B.B. XII, 1-10.
[665] See above, p. [8]. Fahlbeck has recently revised and re-stated his arguments.
[666] Danmarks Riges Historie, I, 79 etc.
[667] Beowulf, übersetzt von H. Gering, 1906, p. vii.
[668] See above, also Nordisk Aandsliv, 10, where Olrik speaks of the Geatas as "Jyderne." His arguments as presented to the Copenhagen Philologisk-historisk Samfund are summarized by Schütte, J.E.G. Ph. XI, 575-6. Clausen also supports the Jute-theory, Danske Studier, 1918, 137-49.
[669] J.E.G. Ph. XI, 574-602.
[670] Beowulf, et Bidrag til Nordens Oldhistorie af Chr. Kier, København, 1915.