Residents of Shetland in the UK celebrate their Viking heritage at the Up Helly Aa fire festival, held in Lerwick. View on ...

Revellers have gathered on Shetland for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event marks the end of the Yule season in ...

Members of the Jarl Squad parade through Lerwick (Jane Barlow/PA) Originating in the 1880s, the festival celebrates Shetland’s Norse heritage ... marking the end of Yule celebrations, draws ...

Rider believes in Norse traditions with an emphasis on gods like Odin and Thor ... Many Pagan pathways converged at the Bartlesville Public Library to celebrate Yule, to accept others for who they are ...

Revellers gathered on Shetland for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event marks the end of the Yule season in Nordic culture, and features “guizers” in Viking costume marching through Lerwick ...

Revellers have gathered on Shetland for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event marks the end of the Yule season in Nordic culture, and features “guizers” in Viking costume marching ...

The event marks the end of the Yule season in Nordic culture, and features “guizers” in Viking costume marching through Lerwick, bearing torches. The event culminated in the burning of an imitation ...