Up Helly Aa takes place in Lerwick, Shetland on the last Tuesday in January ... You can learn much more about the festival in the 'About Up Helly Aa' section.
UP-HELLY-AA is a relatively modern festival. There is some evidence that people in rural Shetland celebrated the 24th day after Christmas as "Antonsmas" or...
Up Helly Aa refers to any of a variety of fire festivals held annually in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, in the middle of winter to mark the end of the yule season.
That's a defiant boast by Shetland's biggest fire festival, considering it's held in ... But it's true: gales, sleet and snow have never yet stopped the Up Helly Aa...
Jan 5, 2017 ... Lerwick in Shetland is the location for the annual Up Helly Aa, Britain's biggest fire festival. For 24 hours, on the last Tuesday of January, the...
Jan 31, 2018 ... Up Helly Aa 2018 - Lerwick's viking festival of fire. In four minutes! All the blazing highlights of Europe's biggest fire festival, and exclusive...
Feb 3, 2017 ... Shetland's Viking fire festival Up Helly Aa is an absurd cross between 'Game of Thrones' and 'The X Factor'. Our writer just got back from this...
Jan 30, 2018 ... Thousands of 'Vikings' took to the streets brandishing burning torches and axes as the ancient Up Helly Aa festival got under way on the...
Jan 25, 2016 ... IT is one of the biggest and most famous fire festivals in the world and goes ... Shetland - Up-Helly-Aa Festival Lerwick - Guiser Jarl and men in...
Jan 30, 2018 ... Shetland's Up Helly Aa Viking festival 2018 – in pictures. Members of the ... Shares. 801. 801. Each year on the Shetland Isles the Vikings come to town in the form of Up Helly Aa festival .... Longship on fire. Topics. Scotland.
Jan 30, 2018 ... Up Helly Aa is a series of fire festivals held every winter in Shetland. Find out more about them from Elsie Maclean at Tobar an Dualchais.
Aug 9, 2017 ... Standing almost horizontal against gale-force winds and the kind of rain that makes you wish you'd spent your life savings on waterproofs,...
Viking descendants formed a torchlight procession before sacrificing a longship at the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. The festival...
Jan 31, 2018 ... Shetland's Up Helly Aa fire festival has come to a spectacular end with the burning of a replica Viking long ship. The Jarl Squad of warriors...
In the far north of Scotland one of the most incredible festivals in Europe is held. ... Up Helly Aa is a lot more than a sub-arctic bonfire and booze-up. It's a superb...
Jan 3, 2014 ... Up Helly Aa, which takes place at the start of each year, is Europe's biggest fire festival. The event is a visual feast that makes Guy Fawkes...
Up-Helly-Aa being the end of helly or holidays. In its modern form the festival is not all that old with the addition of Galleys and a Viking theme only coming about...
May 1, 2018 ... The climax of Up Helly Aa is the burning of a wooden Viking longboat built over the course of the previous year specially for this night alone.
Up Helly Aa is a spectacular fire festival in Lerwick in Shetland on the last Tuesday of January. Read our guide to the day so that you don't miss a thing!
Jan 30, 2018 ... Vikings set fire to a longboat tonight in the annual Up Helly Aa festival (or at least, Shetlanders dressed as Vikings did.) Thousands of people...
No, this blast from the past is not a hostile takeover but a part of what is billed as Europe's Largest Fire Festival. The revelry and fiery traditions of Up Helly Aa act...
Discover the rugged scenery and Viking heritage of Shetland and take part in Up Helly Aa - the Viking fire festival ending up with a Viking longboat burning.
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GALLERY: Vikings march through Lerwick for Up Helly Aa torch procession. January 31 ... WATCH: Vikings take over Shetland for Up Helly Aa festival. January...
Jun 30, 2018 ... Up Helly Aa originally started as a Yule-time party in which sailors and ... havoc in the streets, armed with a dangerous combination of booze and fire. ... (known as guizing), in which festival-goers don full-horned regalia.
Jan 30, 2018 ... Video – Colin Rennie, DC Thomson. THOUSANDS of people have taken to the streets of Shetland as the world famous Up Helly Aa fire festival...
Welcome. The Cullivoe Up Helly Aa is one of many Viking fire festivals held in the Shetland Islands. Our event is held every year on the last Friday in February.
Jan 30, 2015 ... Vikings Storm the Streets at Up Helly Aa, Europe's Biggest Fire Festival (Photos). Hundreds of local residents took to the streets, brandishing...
... by the largest fire festival in Europe - "Up Helly Aa". After a torch-light procession of up to a thousand "guizers" through the streets of Lerwick a full-size replica...
Feb 1, 2017 ... 'Up Helly Aa', the traditional festival of fire, celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands in Scotland.
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Jan 20, 2014 ... Up Helly Aa, or Shetland's Viking Fire Festival, takes place in Lerwick annually on the last Tuesday of January (28th January in 2014.).
Feb 5, 2013 ... In Lerwick, the capital of Scotland's Shetland Islands, a fire festival named Up Helly Aa is held every January to mark the end of the yule season...
Feb 7, 2017 ... Up Helly Aa is a Viking fire festival which pays tribute to Shetland's Scandinavian history and heritage. The Norse invaded in around 800AD...
Up Helly Aa is a legendary viking festival that takes place in Scotland every year, and Tuesday's procession was epic as ever. Realistic armoured costumes,
Oct 30, 2015 ... The Up Helly Aa festival is celebrated on the last Tuesday of ... Europe's largest fire festival features Vikings, ninjas, and men in dresses.
Feb 1, 2017 ... Up Helly Aa, one of the most dramatic fire festivals in the world, takes place every January in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands.
Up Helly Aa is a famous Viking-themed fire festival that actually celebrates the end of Christmas season and its origins date back to the 19th century.
Feb 1, 2018 ... Europe's largest fire festival, Up Helly Aa, is a fiery spectacle everyone should see at least once in their lives. We've assembled this Survival...
After a day of Vikings, parades, and traditional music, it was time for the main event: Up Helly Aa, Shetland's Viking Fire Festival! Fire, torches, parades and glory!
