The key element in a Viking festival has embraced female participants for the first time. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick, Shetland, began in the 1880s but it only allowed women and girls to join the Jarl ...

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An annual fire festival in Scotland is set to have women and girls involved in leading its torchlit procession for the first time. Up Helly Aa is held on the last Tuesday of January, and sees ...

Jenna Moar and three cousins will be first female full members of Viking-dressed squad that will lead annual fire festival Jenna Moar will win a small place in history next week, marked by the ...

An annual fire festival in Shetland is to have women involved in its “jarl squad” for the first time. Lerwick Up Helly Aa is held on the last Tuesday of January, and this year’s event will see men and ...

The burning of the galley in Lerwick provided the traditional climax to another memorable Up Helly Aa spectacle in Shetland. The long-established fixture in the early year calendar sees the ...

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