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

The streets of Lerwick are once again filled with fire and smoke as Shetland holds its world famous Up Helly Aa fire festival ...

Over a thousand people dressed in custom Viking suits and wielded axes, swords and torches as ... culminating in the burning of a Viking-style replica galley. First held in the 1880s, the event ...

Its members, who become Vikings for the day, wear custom-made suits, axes and shields. They also have to build their own replica galley - a Viking long ship - that will be set on fire at the end ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company is aiming to complete the rebuild of the Anglo Saxon ship by next year The team building the replica of a ... have a drag race with the Viking ships." ...

The team building the replica of a famous Anglo-Saxon burial ship have told ... "Maybe we'll get across to Denmark and have a drag race with the Viking ships." "There are no machines, no power tools, ...

The team building the replica of a famous Anglo-Saxon burial ... "Maybe we'll get across to Denmark and have a drag race with the Viking ships." The ship is between 50 and 60% complete and reaches ...