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To turn the sublime into the ridiculous, I spotted this comment the other day:

“In 772 King Charlemagne started fighting the Saxons and the Frisians. After screaming at each other for three years, finally Charlemagne went into his Super Saiyan form, then used the Kamehameha attack against Frieza. This very strong radiation burst hit the earth and was recorded in tree rings, visible in a growth of 1.2% carbon-14 concentration and a mini-ice age.”

[chesley]

In one place Scott mentions the theory (not very favorably) of Heribert Illig, who thought that the years stretching from 614 to 911 never existed at all, but were inserted into the calender by Otto III around 1000