Battle of Jutland (Denmark) Battle of Jutland (Denmark) Battle of Jutland is the rivalry between two of the oldest clubs in Danish football history Aalborg BK (founded 1885) and Aarhus GF (founded 1880). The rivalry between Aalborg BK and Aarhus GF is first and foremost a rivalry between Aarhus og Aalborg which is respectively the second (Aarhus) and the fourth (Aalborg) largest cities in Denmark and two of the most important business centers in Jutland. The rivalry between Aalborg BK and Aarhus GF is also a rivalry between two of the oldest football clubs in Denmark. Both clubs can trace their history all the
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