Helly Aa Fire Festival Lights Up Lerwick, Shetland

UK: Up Helly Aa Fire Festival Lights Up Lerwick, Shetland
Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, UK Video Recording Date/Time 28, 2025 Shetland celebrated its famous Up Helly Aa fire festival, honoring its Norse heritage, on Tuesday, January 28. The event featured a torchlit procession and the ceremonial burning of a Viking longship.
Up Helly Aa - the roots and Viking traditions of the Shetland celebration
Up Helly Aa echoes the long rule of the Kingdom of Norway over Shetland and the return of the sun following the darkest winter days.
Europe's biggest fire festival lights up Shetland
The streets of Lerwick are once again filled with fire and smoke as Shetland holds its world famous Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event, which is traditionally held on the last Tuesday of January, celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage.
Up Helly Aa: A fiery celebration of Shetland's Norse Heritage
Residents of Shetland in the UK celebrate their Viking heritage at the Up Helly Aa fire festival, held in Lerwick. View on euronews
Everything you need to know about Up Helly Aa in Shetland
Here is everything you need to know about Up Helly Aa in Shetland as the fiery festival returns this week for 2025.
Watch: Shetland skies set alight in Europe's largest fire festival
Shetland has once again celebrated its annual fire festival - the largest of its kind in Europe. Up Helly Aa has been held for over 140 years in Lerwick to celebrate Shetland's Norse heritage. Women and girls made history last year when they joined the main "squad" at the head of the procession for the first time.
Residents celebrate Shetland’s Norse heritage at Up Helly Aa fire festival
Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands,
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