thumb|Illustration, Saxon Chronicle, 1492 thumb|17th-century engraving depicting Charlemagne ordering a statue of Krodo destroyed Krodo was a Germanic god of the Saxons, according to the 1492 Saxon Chronicle incunable probably written by the Brunswick goldsmith Conrad Bothe (c. 1475 – c. 1501) and printed in the studio of Peter Schöffer at Mainz. He is supposed to have been similar to the Roman god Saturn. Modern historians characterize the figure of Krodo as a fake (Janzen 2017).
thumb|Illustration, Saxon Chronicle, 1492 thumb|17th-century engraving depicting Charlemagne ordering a statue of Krodo destroyed Krodo was a Germanic god of the Saxons, according to the 1492 Saxon Chronicle incunable probably written by the Brunswick goldsmith Conrad Bothe (c. 1475 – c. 1501) and printed in the studio of Peter Schöffer at Mainz. He is supposed to have been similar to the Roman god Saturn. Modern historians characterize the figure of Krodo as a fake (Janzen 2017).
==Description== thumb|left|160px|Rebuilt Krodo statue at Harzburg Castle The Saxon Chronicle (written in Middle Low German: Cronecken der Sassen) contains a fanciful illustration of Krodo as a man clad in a linen garment with a wafting belt, who is standing on a large fish (a bass or perch) holding a bucket of roses in his right hand and an upright wheel in his left. The symbols possibly refer to the ancient four elements, though numerous further attempts at an interpretation have been given. According to Bothe, Julius Caesar during the conquests of Magna Germania ordered the erection of several fortresses crowned by statues of Roman deities; one of them was dedicated to Saturn–named Krodo by the local population–and stood at the site of later Harzburg Castle. When in 780, during the Saxon Wars, the Frankish king Charlemagne occupied the region he allegedly had the pagan statue destroyed in the course of the Christianization of the Saxon people.
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