Thought to be Britain's biggest fire festival and torchlight procession.A thousand years after the Vikings invaded Scotland, the people of Shetlands remember the Vikings with a festival.
Every winter they make a model Viking Longship. On Up-Helly-Aa night, at the end of January, the Shetlanders dress up in Viking clothes and drag the ship through the town to the sea. They sing Up-Helly-Aa songs before tossing their burning torches onto the ship and creating a massive bonfire. They do this because the Vikings put their dead men in ships and burned them.