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Up-Helly-Aa

location_on Lerwick (Shetland Islands), Great Britain
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About Up-Helly-Aa

Up Helly Aa alludes to any of an assortment of flame celebrations held every year in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, amidst winter to stamp the finish of the yule season. The celebration includes a parade of up to a thousand guizers in Lerwick and extensively bring down numbers in the more provincial celebrations, framed into squads who walk through the town or town in an assortment of themed costumes. The current Lerwick festivity became out of the more established yule custom of tar barrelling which occurred at Christmas and New Year and additionally Up Helly Aa. Squads of young fellows would drag barrels of consuming town on sledges, making mischief.

Concerns over open wellbeing and levels of tipsiness prompted an adjustment in the festivals, and saw them drawing motivation from the islands' Viking history. After the cancelation of tar barrelling around 1874– 1880, consent was in the end acquired for burn parades. The primary yule burn parade occurred in 1876. The principal burn festivity on Up Helly Aa day occurred in 1881. The next year the torchlit parade was altogether improved and regulated through a demand by a Lerwick municipal body to hold another Up Helly Aa burn parade for the visit of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. The main kitchen was presented and consumed in 1889. The privileged part of the 'Jarl' was acquainted with the celebration in the mid twentieth century.

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