The queen of Sheba and her only son Menyelek I: being the 'Book of the Glory of Kings', Kebra Nagast, a work which is alike the traditional history of the establishment of the religion of the hebrews in Ethiopia, and the patent of sovereignty which is now universally accepted in Abyssinia as the symbol of the Divine Authority to rule which the Kings of the Solomonic line claimed to have received through their descent from the House of David. - Wallis Budge, Ernest Alfred (Oxford University Press, 1932)