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 ...
Up Helly Aa is held on the final Tuesday of January every year, and will see an army of more than 1,000 Viking warriors, ...
Video. The Up Helly Aa festival, Europe's largest fire festival, is held on the last Tuesday in January in Shetland.
The amazing Up Helly Aa festival takes place in the Shetland Islands every January and sees more than 1,000 people turn out ...
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.