Videos tagged with "lerwick"
"Up Helly Aa" Shetland Islands Scots Viking invasion history - or just 'transvestite Tuesday', uhh? [06:05]
Known as Up Helly Aa, it celebrates the islands' Viking heritage with a torch-lit procession and the spectacular burning of a replica galley..... but is it really just another kind of transvestism (or, transvestitism) to dress up in ancient warrior garb + carry battle-axes + spears in a civilized main street? Or perhaps they are trying to return to their nubile boyhood yet all the while projecting a kind of masculinity which they have never quite attained .....or the illusion of male aggression as some kind of maturity in a complex society where loving kindness + care for each other is more in need. That is, what exactly is it that they are running away from, uhh? LOL Led by a 60-strong band of latter-day Viking warriors known as the Jarl Squad led by the Viking chief or Guizer Jarl..... Resplendent in winged helmets and crimson cloaks over leather jerkins, they carried mock battleaxes and knives polished to a high sheen. Although the Vikings spent much of the day making public appearances and civic visits, the highlight of the event is always the grand evening procession...... Up-Helly-Aa is the largest fire festival in Europe, and is celebrated in Scotland's Shetland Islands every January. This part of Scotland is the most northerly part of the United Kingdom, 600 miles north of London. There are 100 islands here, 15 of them inhabited, and it's in Lerwick that the fiery festivities take place. Although Up-Helly-Aa is a relatively modern event, it derives from the ...
Tags: Up Helly Aa, Shetland Islands, Scotland, Viking, invasion, history, Britain, torches, bagpipes, transvestite, Caledonia, Celts, Picts, Tuesday, Jarl, Squad, Lerwick, Guizer, procession, longboat, galley, replica, warriors, pyre, fire, annual, festival, Un
Highlanders - Scotland [03:53]
Trip to the Highlands (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Tags: scotland, highlands, highlanders, Edinburgh, Stirling, Glencoe, Forth William, Mallaig, Skye Island, Loch Maree, Ullapool, Durness, Gills, Kirkwall, Shetlands Islands, Lerwick, Sumburgh, Mousa, Wick, Dornoch, Carbisdale, Inverness, Loch Ness, Aviemore, Pi
Island Vista Shetland Tours [04:16]
Promotional film for Island Vista Tours in the Shetland Islands
Tags: yarlshof, clickimin broch, scalloway castle, island vista, shetland, shetland islands, scotland, highlands, tour, tourist, tangwick haa, eshaness, lerwick, cruise liner, liners, ship
Pipe Band- Up Helly Aa 2010 [00:46]
Pipe Band playing in the street on the morning of Up Helly Aa 2010 Viking Festival in Lerwick, Shetland.
Tags: bagpipe, bagpipes, "pipe, band", "up, helly, aa", viking, lerwick, shetland, "shetland, islands", "british, legion", haggis, "haggis, adventures", "radical, travel", scotland
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