diff --git a/core/modules/views/src/Plugin/views/display/Feed.php b/core/modules/views/src/Plugin/views/display/Feed.php
index 9fa0642..747e3f5 100644
--- a/core/modules/views/src/Plugin/views/display/Feed.php
+++ b/core/modules/views/src/Plugin/views/display/Feed.php
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ protected function defineOptions() {
     $options['style']['contains']['type']['default'] = 'rss';
     $options['style']['contains']['options']['default']  = array('description' => '');
     $options['sitename_title']['default'] = FALSE;
-    $options['row']['contains']['type']['default'] = '';
+    $options['row']['contains']['type']['default'] = 'rss_fields';
     $options['defaults']['default']['style'] = FALSE;
     $options['defaults']['default']['row'] = FALSE;
 
@@ -134,6 +134,24 @@ protected function defineOptions() {
   }
 
   /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function newDisplay() {
+    parent::newDisplay();
+
+    // Set the default row style. Ideally this would be part of the option
+    // definition, but in this case it's dependent on the view's base table,
+    // which we don't know until init().
+    $row_plugins = Views::fetchPluginNames('row', $this->getType(), array($this->view->storage->get('base_table')));
+    $default_row_plugin = key($row_plugins);
+    if (empty($this->options['row']['type']) || $this->options['row']['type'] === 'rss_fields') {
+      $options = $this->getOption('row');
+      $options['type'] = $default_row_plugin;
+      $this->setOption('row', $options);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Overrides \Drupal\views\Plugin\views\display\DisplayPluginBase::optionsSummary().
    */
   public function optionsSummary(&$categories, &$options) {