german guy says Charlemagne never existed and were actually in like 1729. hear me out before you laugh

Heribert Illig, 1991. published a whole thing in Germany arguing that 297 years of the early middle ages, roughly AD 614 to 911, were just. invented. fabricated. inserted into the calendar. which means Charlemagne is a fiction, no Viking raids in that window, none of it real, and the actual year rig……