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A spectacular galley burning in Scalloway tonight (Friday) heralded the start of Shetland's fire festival season for 2019. A sizeable crowd turned out to see around 200 guizers join this year's 51 member Jarl's Squad, led by Tingwall-man Maurice Jamieson, on their torchlit procession through the ... Read more...
And we're off... fire festival season 2019 kicked off in Scalloway this morning (Friday) with a procession of Vikings through the village. Guizer Jarl Maurice Jamieson – portraying Thorbjorn Hrollaugsson – led his squad of 51 from Port Arthur along Main Street and towards the Scalloway Youth ... Read more...
In The Shetland Times this week... • Traffic accident in Lerwick and Voe cause road closures and delays as icy weather strikes again. • A Whalsay pensioner tells of the horror of seeing fire rip through the house of a lifelong friend. • Angered councillors grudgingly accept budget off... Read more...
“Burn, baby, burn!” shouted a child, brimming with excitement, as flames began to roar out of the galley Jörmungandr. Scalloway Fire Festival is the highlight of the year for many residents of the village – but it is the children above all who lap up every second of the night’s events. ... Read more...
And so it begins... The 2018 season of fiery festivals got under way in Scalloway this morning as Leslie-Wills Setrice rallied his troops for the big day ahead. This year's Jarl was smiling from ear to ear as his squad assembled at the village boating club to enjoy some refreshments. The squad... Read more...
The assembled throng bristled with excitement as the streetlights across Scalloway went dead - signalling the imminent arrival of the torchlit procession. Since morning a steady but light fall of snow had given the ground below a crisp white dusting. The bitter wind which greeted the Jarl's Squad... Read more...
It was a bitterly cold morning with a biting wind and a smattering of snow. But the wind was not the only thing with bite as the Scalloway Fire Festival got under way this morning. In a break with tradition the dragon's head at the fore of the galley has been replaced with a shark. The weather... Read more...
It was a family affair for Guizer Jarl Bryan Garrick at today's beginning of the Scalloway Fire Festival. (more…) Read more...
Not a whistle of wind troubled the Jarl’s Squad this morning as Bjorn Ironside, spear in hand led the way to the waterfront for the Scalloway Fire Festival. (more…) Read more...
Guizer Jarl Kenny Grant and his squad of Vikings made their way through the streets of Scalloway last night followed by scores of guizers who formed 12 different squads. The procession was blessed with good weather and a large crowd gathered to watch the burning of the galley boat, Eiluj, at Port ... Read more...