Each year they prepare obsessively for Up Helly Aa, assembling, plank by plank, a replica of a Viking ship. Bristling with spears and swords, Viking and Slav reenactors face off in a mock battle ...
Two wounds in the skull were probably made by a spear, and marks on the spine ... looked as if they had been struck by swords. Could this have been a Viking attack on a monastery?