863- Weland lost a duel and died

France
Two vikings accused Weland for treachery and claimed that the baptism was a treachery against t1he Nordic gods. Weland denied the accusations, and one of the vikings challenged him to a holmgang, Weland lost and died.
Germany
Danish Vikings looted along the Rhine, they settled on an island close by Cologne but were driven off by a attack of Lothar II.
Low countries
Viking raiders plundered Dorestad , it thereafter disappeared from the chronicles.
Nijmegen and Utrecht was captured

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