Sea War Museum Jutland years of war, which was fought on, above and below the surface of the sea. It was four brutal years with submarines and zeppelins, with mine war and destroyer war, with trade war and cruiser war. Men fought and died in the cold waves of the North Sea, and in reality, the war might have been decided here. Whoever controlled the sea-lanes to England would also win the war, and the North Sea consequently came to play a crucial role. Jutland Memorial Park is a memorial park in Thyborøn, Jutland, Denmark. One of the world's largest sea battles took place
Jutland in c. 450 AD. The Angles themselves gave their name to the new emerging kingdoms called England (i.e., "Angle-land"). Saxons and Frisii migrated to the region in the early part of the Christian era. To protect themselves from invasion by the Christian Frankish emperors, the Danes built the Danevirke, a wall stretching across South Jutland from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea, beginning in the 8th century. The pagan Saxons inhabited the southernmost part of the peninsula at the Baltic Sea until the Saxon Wars in 772-804 AD in the Nordic Iron Age, when Charlemagne violently subdued them and