Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets / And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources

by S. Baring-Gould

[676] Koran, Sura xxxviii.

[677] Tabari, pp. 460, 461.

[678] In the Jewish legend, Asmodeus. In “Curiosities of Olden times” I have pointed out the connection between the story of the disgrace of Solomon and that of Nebuchadnezzar, Jovinian, Robert of Sicily, etc.

[679] Deut. xvii. 16, 17.

[680] Emek Nammelek, fol. 14; Gittin, fol. 68, col. 2; Eisenmenger, i. pp. 358-60. The Anglo-Saxon story of Havelock the Dane bears a strong resemblance to this part of the story of Solomon.

[681] Eisenmenger, i. pp. 358-60; Weil, pp. 271-4; Tabari, c. 96.

[682] Weil, p. 274.

[683] Eisenmenger, i. 361.

[684] Tabari, p. 454.

[685] Koran, Sura xxxiv.; Tabari, c. 97; Weil, p. 279.