An abandoned Viking Village in Iceland?

This post seem to permeate the “viking” groups on Facebook and it claim to show an abandoned Viking Village in Iceland.

It doesn’t look anyway like Viking age houses and it doesn’t look abandoned at all. A quick Image Search confirm that it’s a Scottish Village on The Isle of Lewis named “Gearrannan Blackhouse Village”. You can see it on google Maps by clicking on this link: https://goo.gl/maps/97Ygy64LigcZ6M3p8

The houses are the So-called “Blackhouses” named so after the smokefilled enterior. You can read more about them here: https://www.isle-of-lewis.com/what-to-do/historical-attractions/blackhouses/

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