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The Glorious Victories of 'Amda ṣeyon, King Of Ethiopia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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'Amda ṣeyon was one of the most outstanding Ethiopian kings of any age and a singular figure dominating the horn of Africa in the fourteenth century. Almost alone among Ethiopian rulers he was fortunate in having his principal campaign against Adal chronicled in a manner worthy of this exploit, for, in contrast to much of the literature preserved in G∂‘∂z, 'Amda ṣeyon's chronicler j could wield his pen with dexterity and some literary panache.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , October 1966 , pp. 600 - 611
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1966
References
1 Huntingford, G. W. B. (tr.): The glorious victories of 'Āmda ṣeyon, king of Ethiopia. (Oxford Library of African Literature.) xii, 142 pp., front., 6 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. 38s.Google Scholar
2 mazāgbeta or asayfet, perhaps more than anything else, show H.'s distance from Semitic Ethiopia.
3 As an example of H.'s insufficient command of the relevant literature one might take pp. 27–9 where he argues that Tewodros and Galawdewos are not the kings by that name but the two martyrs of Antiocb. But all this had already been established by Conti Rossini (Note, 15–17), with greatly superior arguments, and by Devos (Analecta Bollandiana, LXII, 1944, 306–9). Conti Rossini in particular has pointed out that, if Theodore and Claudius were the emperors by that name, they would be likely to be interpolations which could be ascertained from the comparison of MSS of varying filiation. This important aspect was never investigated by Huntingford.
4 All these entries are given in Huntingford's spelling.
5 P. 16 of the Arabic text of Rinck's edition of Maqrm's Ilmām.
6 A critical analysis of all known MSS of the Amharic royal songs has been undertaken by Mme. Mantel-Nièćko, J. (in an—alas still unpublished—diploma thesis at the University of Warsaw, 1956). Cf. S. Strelcyn in Proceedings first Int. Congr. of Africanists, 1964, p. 106, n. 2.Google Scholar