Shetland Island locals celebrate Viking culture with a festival

A Guizer from the Viking Jarl Squad takes part in the Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of 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]