Wallis Budge[3] and Taddesse Tamrat[4] put the end of Dawit's reign at 1411-1412, a decade before the supposed battle takes place.

The participation and death of Emperor Dawit in the supposed battle is therefore, a fringe theory stated only by Richard Pankhurst and contradicted by an overwhelming number of scholars.

Early in his reign, Mansur ad-Din launched an expedition against a king of Ethiopia and drove him to Yedaya which was described as his royal seat.

[8] However, Taddesse Tamrat himself puts the end of Dawit's reign at 1412, contradicting Pankhurst's presumption of the Emperor's death in this battle and making it impossible.

Wallis Budge[12] also put the end of Dawit's reign in the years 1411-1412 a decade before the supposed battle takes place and making the emperor's participation impossible.