Photos: a hidden gem in Vágar

Journalist Tórður Mikkelsen portrays everyday life in towns and villages across the islands in one of KvF’s most popular radio programmes, ‘Við Tórði á Túri’.

The Faroes are a tiny country, but somehow Tórður has managed to come up with fresh content every week for many, many years.

To do this, he sometimes has to seek out the far-flung corners of the country.

In 2015, he visited the abandoned village of Víkar together with a group of shepherds.

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Víkar doesn’t even feature on Google maps, so we had to draw a red circle to mark the spot

Here’s what Wikipedia says about Víkar:

“Víkar was founded in 1833 and belonged to the village of Gásadalur farther south. Even today a path still connects the two communities with each other. Even though the landscape was very favourable, Víkar had already been abandoned by 1910, because it was too difficult to reach. It shared this fate with its former neighbouring community of Slættanes, which had also been founded during the same period.”

Here are some of the photos Tórður took on his trip:

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Tórður and a dog. Photo credits: one of the shepherds

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Read the Faroese version of this article here.

Translated by prosa.fo.

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