Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, ...

Over a thousand people dressed in custom Viking suits and wielded axes, swords and torches as they marched through Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, the UK's most northerly islands, culminating in the ...

Finlay Aitken’s dissertation on Shetland focuses on different forms of “island-making”, which he describes as “a customary ...