Old photograph of Up Helly Aa procession, Shetland, Scotland. The first Viking galley was burned in 1889. At this festival there is a main guizer who is dubbed the "Jarl". The procession culminates in torches being thrown into a replica Viking longship or galley. The event happens all over Shetland, but it is only the Lerwick galley which is not sent seaward. Everywhere else, the galley is sent seabound, in an echo of legendary Viking sea burials.
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