It has been described as “an Abyssinian politico-religious epic” and 'medieval-era mythology'. As the Ethiopianist Edward Ullendorff explained in the 1967 Schweich Lectures, 'The Kebra Nagast is not merely a literary work, but it is the repository of Ethiopian national and religious feelings'. It also discusses the conversion of Ethiopians from the worship of the Sun, Moon, and stars to that of the 'Lord God of Israel'. The text contains an account of how the Queen of Sheba (Queen Makeda of Ethiopia) met King Solomon and about how the Ark of the Covenant came to Ethiopia with their son Menelik I (Menyelek). It is considered to hold the genealogy of the Solomonic dynasty, which followed the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The text, in its existing form, is at least 700 years old and is considered by many Ethiopian Christians to be a historically reliable work.
Kebra Negast ( Ge'ez: ክብረ ነገሥት, kəbrä nägäśt), or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century national epic of Ethiopia, written in Ge'ez. 14th-century text about the Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia Illustrations to the Kebra Nagast, 1920s
