Hundreds of modern-day Vikings celebrated the Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival in Lerwick on the Shetlands, an archipelago of Scotland. They paraded through the streets carrying burning torches before they set light to their replica Viking ship. The festival falls on the last Tuesday in January. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/81zp
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