Shetland Island locals celebrate Viking culture with a festival

Guizers dressed as Vikings from the Jarl Squad surround the longship with burning torches during the Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands and culminates with up to 1,000 guizers (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into their Viking longboat and setting it alight late in the evening. [Photo via VCG/Andy Buchanan]