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Up-Helly-Aa is a large fire festival celebrated annually in January in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, marking the end of the Yule season and the influence of Scandinavian Vikings. Over 1,000 participants dressed as Vikings drag a replica longship through town at night, circling it with torches before setting it ablaze, singing and celebrating with parties throughout the night and into the morning.
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Up helly aa
Up Helly Aa refers to winter fire festivals held in Shetland, Scotland annually in mid-winter marking the end of the yule season. The Lerwick celebration involves up to 1000 costumed participants marching in squads through town, growing out of older traditions of dragging burning tar barrels. Over time, the celebrations became more elaborate, with Viking themes being introduced in the late 1800s including burning a longship replica. While originally a young working class male event, Up Helly Aa is now larger and more organized while maintaining connections to its origins over 150 years ago.
Up helly aa
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Up helly aa
Up Helly Aa is an annual winter festival held in the Shetland Islands in late January, celebrating Viking heritage. During the festival, nearly 1000 men dress as Vikings and carry torches in a procession, throwing them onto a replica Viking ship at the end, which is then set on fire. In the evening, squads perform dances and acts in local halls until the next morning, marking the end of winter festivities.
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Up Helly Aa refers to winter fire festivals held in Shetland, Scotland annually in mid-winter marking the end of the yule season. The Lerwick celebration involves up to 1000 costumed participants marching in squads through town, growing out of older traditions of dragging burning tar barrels. Over time, the celebrations became more elaborate, with Viking themes being introduced in the late 1800s including burning a longship replica. While originally a young working class male event, Up Helly Aa is now larger and more organized while maintaining connections to its origins over 150 years ago.
Up helly aa
This is the powerpoint created by the pupils who went to Spain as part of the Comenius Project, Gairloch High School.
Up helly aa
Up Helly Aa is an annual winter festival held in the Shetland Islands in late January, celebrating Viking heritage. During the festival, nearly 1000 men dress as Vikings and carry torches in a procession, throwing them onto a replica Viking ship at the end, which is then set on fire. In the evening, squads perform dances and acts in local halls until the next morning, marking the end of winter festivities.
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Up helly-aa
- 1. Up-Helly-Aa
- 2. Up-Helly-Aa is the largest fire festival in Europe, and is celebrated in Scotland's Shetland Islands every January
- 3. It celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings marking the end of the Yule season -When Christianity came to these Islands The festival of Yule took place for Christmas
- 4. The main celebration starts at nightfall. But before dawn a large proclamation full of gossip and wicked humour about the year's happenings in Shetland is placed.
- 5. At 10am the Guizer Jarl and his squad of Vikings drag the galley through the town to the harbour
- 6. a thousand guizers are gathered in their squads. At 7.30 a rocket is fired to light the torches.
- 7. the procession forms a snaking path of light through the dark streets until it comes to the burning site
- 8. The band strikes up and the progress of music and singing take half an hour to reach the burning field, where they circle a galley in a huge Wheel of fire.
- 9. As the guizers sing The Galley Song, a bugle sound- and the torches are fired into the galley
- 10. The celebration ends up with parties until the next morning…