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Participants dressed as Vikings pose beside their longboat during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands and culminates with up to 1,000 'guizers' (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into their Viking longboat and setting it alight later in the evening. (AFP PHOTO/Andy Buchanan)
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Participants dressed in armour and holding Viking war-axes and shields take part in a procession during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. (AFP PHOTO/Andy Buchanan)
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Members of the Jarl Squad are pictured in front of a burning Viking Galley in Lerwick, on the Shetland Isles, off the north-east coast of Scotland, during the Up Helly Aa Viking festival. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson)
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'Guizer Jarl' David Nicholson, leader of the 'Jarl Squad', stands aboard his longboat next to its beast-head prow during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. (AFP PHOTO/Andy Buchanan)
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Participants dressed in armour and holding Viking war-axes and shields take part in a procession during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands and culminates with up to 1,000 'guizers' (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into their Viking longboat and setting it alight later in the evening. (AFP PHOTO / Andy Buchanan)
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Boys take part in a Viking procession during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. (AFP PHOTO/Andy Buchanan)
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Members of the Viking Jarl Squad surround their leader or 'Guizer Jarl' on a Viking galley ship during the annual Up Helly Aa Festival in the Shetland Islands of Lerwick. (AFP PHOTO/Andy Buchanan)
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'Guizers' with flaming torches are pictured with a Viking Galley in Lerwick, on the Shetland Isles, off the north-east coast of Scotland, during the Up Helly Aa Viking festival (AP Photo/Danny Lawson)
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