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.
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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