Grab your ax and head to your longship as LiveNOW celebrates the Scottish Shetland Islands' Nordic heritage. Tuesday, beginning at 2 p.m. ET, LiveNOW from FOX will be covering the annual Up Helly Aa, ...

In spite of an impending thunderstorm, hundreds of heavily disguised torchbearers gathered on a remote Scottish island to celebrate an old Viking fire festival. They marched through the town of ...

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The burning of the galley in Lerwick provided the traditional climax to another memorable Up Helly Aa spectacle in Shetland. The long-established fixture in the early year calendar sees the ...

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Vikings and hundreds of torchbearers have marched through the streets of Lerwick for Europe's largest fire festival. The world-famous event lights up the skies above Shetland's capital every year on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Up Helly Aa festival, Europe's largest fire festival, is held on the last Tuesday in January in Shetland. Stock market today: ...