Scotland Magazine author Maggie Stanfield

Festival of fire

The Up Helly Aa Festival makes for one of the most visually stunning events on the planet. Maggie Stanfield went along

What on earth is this? I have watched aghast the fire-throwing delinquents setting ablaze a beautiful and elaborately decorated Viking longship, and gazed in awe as several hundred pyromaniacs torched Lerwick as crowds of spectators cheered them on. What has the world come to when the far northern ...

Scottish Events from Issue 24 published on 05/01/2006