Viking Village

Viking Village is not a real settlement but a film set, at the foot of Vestrahorn on the Stokksnes headland in southeast Iceland. It went up around 2010 for a Viking film that lost its funding and was never made, so the landowners left the longhouses, gates and small ship standing. Salt wind has greyed the timber and turf until it looks genuinely old. One small fee at the Viking Café covers the set, the black beach and the Vestrahorn view.