During the event local "guizers" throw their torches at a replica of a Viking long ship until it is consumed by flames.

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

Participants dressed as Vikings prepare to participate in the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, on January 28, 2014. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the… Getty Images ...

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 ...

Grab your ax and head to your longship as LiveNOW celebrates the Scottish Shetland Islands' Nordic heritage. Tuesday, beginning at 2 p.m. ET, LiveNOW from FOX will be covering the annual Up Helly Aa, ...

LERWICK, Scotland — On a map, it's the United Kingdom's northernmost outpost. Yet if residents in the pastoral Shetland Islands join Scotland's 5.2 million other inhabitants a month from now and vote ...

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