Shetland's Vikings celebrate Up Helly Aa fire festival

Name: Shetland's Vikings celebrate Up Helly Aa fire festival
Uploaded: 2014-01-28T23:11:14.000Z
Duration: 46 s
Description: A thousand people dressed as Vikings have celebrated Shetland's spectacular annual Up Helly Aa fire festival.

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Revellers dressed as Vikings have celebrated Shetland's spectacular annual Up Helly Aa fire festival.

Chief Viking Ivor Cluness described the "unbelievable feeling" as men carrying torches paraded through the streets of Lerwick before burning their replica Viking galley.

Scotland

28 January 2014