Thursday, January 28, 2010
A Tradition I Could Get Into
As long as you don't have to eat pickled herring. Guizers of the "jarl squad" carry the torches they use to set a longship replica on fire during the Up Helly Aa festival in the Shetland Islands. This commemoration of the islands' Norse history seems to go back to the 1870s.
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