 Ansgar returned to Birka in 854 and Denmark in 860 to reestablish some of the gains of his first visits.In Denmark he won over the trust of then-King Horik II (not Horik I, who was murdered in 854 and opposed Christianity) who gave him land in Hedeby (proto-town to be replaced by Schleswig) for the first Christian chapel.A second church was founded a few years later in Ribe on Denmark's west coast.