Shetland's biggest and most spectacular Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival is taking place in the capital Lerwick. It is one of 12 celebrating the islands' Norse heritage, culminating in the burning ...

Shetland’s Up Helly Aa Viking festival reached its fiery culmination with a torchlit procession and the burning of a replica longship. For the first time in its 143-year history, women and girls ...

Guizers set fire to a replica Viking long ship during the festival The campaign to allow ... march was "completely unacceptable" in modern Scotland. "I think there should be a gradual move to ...

The 2019 Chief Viking John Nicolson is the ... about 500 years until they became part of Scotland in 1468. Up Helly Aa is a descendent of the ancient festival of Yule which the Vikings held ...

Happy with the inaugural Great Northern Viking Festival, founder Inga From eyed the revelry she and volunteers helped create during the weekend at Jack McGowan farm. From said the all-volunteer ...