'Guizers' with flaming torches are pictured with a Viking Galley in Lerwick, on the Shetland Isles, off the north-east coast of Scotland, during the Up Helly Aa Viking festival on Tuesday January 31, 2012. — AP Photo
Hundreds of costumed guizers carrying torches took to the streets of a Scottish island during the annual Up Helly Aa festival.
Originating in the 1880s, the tradition which celebrates Shetland’s Norse heritage sees around 900 guizers drag a Viking galley through the streets of Lerwick, led by a horde of ‘Vikings’.
The festival, that attracts thousands of revelers each year, culminates in the burning of the Viking galley. — Photos by Agencies
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