Photo: John D. McHugh
Here's a fantastic photoessay from Time Magazine, titled The World's Wackiest Holiday, featuring such gems as Scotland's Up Helly-Aa Viking festival (above), Summer Redneck Games, Spain's Tomatina tomato fight, Japan's Naked Festival, Thailand's Monkey Buffet, and many more!
The Islands sit slap bang in the middle of the north sea, right between Scotland ad Norway.
And used to belong to Norway, so a ceremonial Viking Funeral and fire throwing seem frankly a bit tame when they could have gone for sacrifice and doing the blood eagle on their enemies.