On Scotland’s Shetland Islands, a fire festival called Up Helly Aa celebrates the region’s Norse heritage. It takes place ...

Up Helly Aa transforms Lerwick in the Shetland Islands every January as over 1,000 torch-bearing Vikings march through the ...

A large bonfire lit up the night sky in the town of Lerwick in Scotland’s Shetland Islands as revelers celebrated the annual Up Helly Aa – Europe’s largest fire festival – on Tuesday7.According to the ...

Scottish vikings march through the streets for Up Helly Aa festivities Hundreds of vikings in Lerwick celebrated Up Helly Aa with a torchlit procession, ending with the ceremonial burning of a replica ...

The Up Helly Aa festival, Europe's largest fire festival, is held on the last Tuesday in January in Shetland. View on ...

The amazing Up Helly Aa festival takes place in the Shetland Islands every January and sees more than 1,000 people turn out ...

Vikings partied in Scotland's Shetland Islands on Tuesday in the annual "Up Helly Aa" festival, featuring a parade of men in suits of armour torching a wooden ship. The event -- which means "long ...

In spite of an impending thunderstorm, hundreds of heavily disguised torchbearers gathered on a remote Scottish island to ...

In the winter dusk, hundreds of Vikings are marching down to the beach, bearing flaming torches. Their studded leather breastplates glint in the firelight as they roar and sing.

Video. The Up Helly Aa festival, Europe's largest fire festival, is held on the last Tuesday in January in Shetland.