Robert HardingUp Helly Aa festival celebrates Norse traditions in Shetland, Scotland on the last Tuesday in January every year. Locals in viking inspired costumes march through town in a torchlit procession, eventually throwing their torches onto a replica of a viking longship, which becomes engulfed in flames. A night of pagan style merrymaking ensues.
(Photos by Adam Woolfitt/Robert Harding)
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