BBC11 个月
Up Helly Aa: What happens at Shetland's Viking fire festival?
Shetland's biggest and most spectacular Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival is taking place in the capital Lerwick. It is one of 12 celebrating the islands' Norse heritage, culminating in the burning ...
Forbes1 年
Shetland Islands: Where Scandinavia Meets Scotland
There’s evidence the building and its surrounding structures were also utilized by Pictish people and during the Viking Age. Shetland’s Mousa Broch is the tallest remaining Iron Age broch and ...
BBC1 年
In pictures: Shetland's Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival
Watch: Viking longship burned at Shetland's Up Helly Aa fire festival Shetland's famous Up Helly Aa fire festival - with women and girls in the torchlit procession for the first time - has ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN3 个月
500,000 homes to benefit as UK’s Shetland wind farm gets connected to grid
It has been realized through two pioneering projects: the Viking Wind Farm and a 161.6 miles (260-kilometer) subsea ...
来自MSN10 个月
Meet the Vi-queens! Women take part in historic Up Helly Aa Viking festival as hundreds ...
The members don Viking-style clothing for the event, which celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage. In 1949, the festival became a highly organised event for the first time, after years of ad-hoc ...