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The Kebra Nagast, var. Kebra Negast (Ge'ez: ክብረ ነገሥት, kəbrä nägäśt), or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century [1] national epic of Ethiopia, written in Geʽez by the nebure id Ishaq of Aksum.
Menelik I (Ge'ez: ምኒልክ, Mənilək) was the legendary first Emperor of Ethiopia.According to Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia, so named because Menelik I was the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba.
The Kebra Nagast (var. Kebra Negast', Ge'ez, ክብረ ነገሥት, kəbrä nägäst), or the Book of the Glory of Kings, is an account written in Ge'ez of the origins of the Solomonic line of the Emperors of Ethiopia.
The most extensive version of the legend appears in the Kebra Nagast (Glory of the Kings), the Ethiopian national saga, [30] translated from Arabic in 1322. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Here Menelik I is the child of Solomon and Makeda (the Ethiopic name for the queen of Sheba; she is the child of the man who destroys the legendary snake-king Arwe [ 34 ...
the Kebra Nagast's imaginative and emotive account of a line of descent from Solomon and Sheba to the kings of Aksum and the new Solomonic dynasty is highly improbable and unsupported by evidence. It is a myth. [8] Although the story originated as a medieval political myth, it nevertheless became embedded in the Ethiopian sense of nationhood.
The Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, describes the dynasty's claim to descent from Solomon, [26] and was used to justify the takeover from the Zagwe dynasty. The epic states that the Kingdom of Aksum was founded by Menelik I , who was allegedly the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba , known as Makeda in Ethiopia. [ 14 ]
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This story is adapted in the Kebra Nagast, but as a dispute adjudicated by a son of Sulayman. Solomon and the demons. The Queen of Sheba.