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  2. Viking Festival of Catoira - Wikipedia

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    Viking Festival of Catoira has been celebrated since 1961. The first stage was the Ateneo de Ullán forum between 1961 and 1964. In 1959, the poet and priest Faustino Rey Romero from Isorna along with the poet Baldomero Isorna Casal from Catoira, founded the Ateneo de Ullán, an artistic and literary forum made up of intellectuals from the local area.

  3. Up Helly Aa - Wikipedia

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    Each festival involves a torchlit procession by squads of costumed participants (known as guizers) that culminates in the burning of an imitation Viking galley. The largest festival held in Lerwick, Shetland's capital, involves a procession of up to a thousand guizers who march through the streets of Lerwick on the last Tuesday in January. [3]

  4. List of Lerwick Up Helly Aa Guizer Jarls - Wikipedia

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    The Guizer Jarl is the chief guizer, who (in the modern festival) leads a squad dressed as Vikings who are the primary focus of the festival's proceedings. Only the Jarl's Squad dresses as Vikings; the festival's other squads dress up in other costumes associated with the act they perform throughout the halls opened after the torchlight procession.

  5. The Up Helly Aa festival: celebrating Viking roots - AOL

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  6. Biggest Viking festival in Midwest gets a new home at UW ...

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    The replica Viking House at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will be the centerpiece of the free two-day Midwest Viking Festival.

  7. Swedish dancers and a Viking reenactment will be part of ...

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    Midsummer's Festival is back and bigger than ever in Lindsborg in 2022 after two years of smaller celebrations because of the COVID pandemic.

  8. List of festivals in Denmark - Wikipedia

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    Viking Festival, changing locations arranged by National Museum Denmark; Food. Cod Festival, Nakskov; Copenhagen Beer Festival; Copenhagen Cooking and Food Festival;

  9. It's a plunderful life: Pirate Viking Summer Festival wants ...

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    The Pirate Viking Summer Festival returns for its fifth year, celebrating the culture and history surrounding seafaring people. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24 ...