Krodo

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).