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icymist

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Thu Jan 30, 2014, 09:09 PM Jan 2014

Fire festival celebrates Norse heritage of Shetland in Viking style [View all]

After a day of celebrations marking the island's Norse heritage, the Up Helly Aa festival ended in true Viking style.

Lerwick's fire festival, the largest in Europe, ended with a torchlight procession through the town before the traditional burning of a Viking galley.

Although the rainy weather did not halt proceedings, the longboat had to be moved from it's normal spot at the Pier due to high winds.

It was the culmination of months of hard works by the Viking squads that take part.



http://news.stv.tv/scotland/262106-viking-celebrations-at-up-helly-aa-festival-in-lerwick-shetland/

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