According to E. A. Wallis Budge, Sarwe Iyasus ruled for either four or eight months, and died of plague.[2] According to James Bruce, some of the Ethiopian lists of rulers omit his name.[3]
References
^Stewart, John (2006). African States and Rulers (third ed.). London: McFarland & Company Inc. p. 93.
^Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 303.
^James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1805 edition), vol. 3, p. 98