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The Guizer Jarl leads his men during the annual Up Helly Aa Festival, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, 27th January 2009. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian vikings in the Shetland Islands and has employed this theme in the festival for over 100 years. The event culminates with up to 1000 'guizers' (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into a Viking longship...Pic shows historical photographs of Up Helly Aa guizers. Hundreds of Dutch fishermen had Lerwick as their summer base and were seen regularly on the towns streets. However this Dutch-themed squad shows the women from home in the Netherlands and only the squads fiddler is dressed as a fisherman.
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