The raucous celebration of the new year and the islands’ Nordic heritage culminates in the ritual burning of a longship – and much drinking ...

SHETLAND’S famous fire festival season got underway today ahead of a busy few months of Up Helly Aa celebrations ...

Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, ...

Over a thousand people dressed in custom Viking suits and wielded axes, swords and torches as they marched through Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, the UK's most northerly islands, culminating in the ...

The Up Helly Aa festival, a celebration of the Shetland Islands' Viking heritage, kicked off Tuesday in the capital of the Scottish region, Lerwick.