Up Helly Aa Fire Festival celebrates the Vikings
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Participants dressed as Vikings pose on their longboat at the start of the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Jan. 29, 2013. Every year a new boat is built and burned after a torch lit procession of locals dressed in viking costumes during the Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival.
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