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Up Helly Aa: Viking festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands
« on: March 07, 2013, 01:05:12 PM »

Up Helly Aa:

    Viking festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands


The annual "Up Helly-Aa Torch Festival" in Shetland Islands is a time to pay tribute to the Viking era. Helly-Aa means the last holy date.

Viking descendants form a torchlight procession before sacrificing a longship at the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. The  Up Helly Aa, which began in 1870, celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands. Shetland and neighbouring island Orkney were ruled by the Norse for about 500 years until they became part of Scotland in 1468.

Up Helly Aa is held on the last Tuesday in January every year, whatever the weather. The event culminates with up to 1,000 'guizers' - men in Vicking costume - throwing flaming torches into a Viking longship at the end of the festival.


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Impressive
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2013, 02:04:24 AM »
  Impressive. Yeah...

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Re: Up Helly Aa: Viking festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2023, 11:55:11 PM »
 Interesting. :) :)
A fan of science, philosophy and so on. :)

 

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