The popular connection between this word and hide, a skin, as in the story of the first jutish settlement, is a fable.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley
It was probably composed in the fifth century- not in England, but on the Continent- and brought over to this island- not on paper or on parchment- but in the memories of the old jutish or Saxon vikings or warriors.
"A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2)"
John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
The parties, here, are jutish Danes and Frisians.
"The Ethnology of the British Islands"
Robert Gordon Latham