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Boreal Saga Play

by The Boreal Times · Duna Press Editions
Game

The Up Helly Aa galley

Game: assemble the parts of the Viking galley for the Shetland fire festival.

Tap the game to open it fullscreen. On a computer, Esc exits; on a phone, use the ✕ button.

How to play

Drag each part (or choose with the arrows and press Space) to its right place in the drawing. A part in the wrong place is a mistake: three and the game is over. Time is short.

The story behind it

At Up Helly Aa, in Lerwick, Shetland, a galley is burned every winter in a fire festival. The assembly in the game is made up. Read the story in Up Helly Aa: the fire festival in which Shetland burns a Viking ship, and what is old and what is modern in it.