Hundreds of modern-day Vikings celebrated the Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival in Lerwick on the Shetlands, an archipelago of Scotland. They paraded through the streets carrying burning torches before they set light to their replica Viking ship. The festival falls on the last Tuesday in January. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/81zp<br /><br />RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air<br /><br />Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday<br /><br />Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews<br />Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com<br />Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt<br />Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT<br />Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv<br /><br />RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.
