The world-famous event lights up the skies above Shetland’s capital every year on the last Tuesday in January when local “guizers” throw their torches at a replica of a Viking long ship until it is consumed by flames.
A nod to Shetland’s Norse heritage, the parade is led by a group of Vikings, locally known as the “Jarl Squad”.
Lynden Nicolson, who is the squad’s chief called Guizer Jarl, had to wait 18 years to take up the role of commanding the procession – this is said to be the longest wait in the festival’s 145-year-old history.
