Revellers have gathered on Shetland for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event marks the end of the Yule season in ...

Want to "walk" through a real Viking village? The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists ...

The event culminated in the burning of an imitation Viking galley in Lerwick harbour amid spectacular scenes. More than 1,000 torches are lit on the last Tuesday in January as two processions ...