Up Helly Aa
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Up Helly Aa is a type of fire festival held annually from January to March in various communities in Shetland, Scotland, to mark the end of the Yule season. Each festival involves a torchlit processio
Guizers at an Up Helly Aa celebration in Uyeasound, February 2010
1 – The Guizer Jarl. The Guizer Jarl is the principal character in the celebration of Up Helly Aa, which takes place on the last Tuesday in January. Each Guizer Jarl takes the name of a figure in Norse legend. This one was Flokki of the Ravens.
2 – The Jarl Squad. The Jarl's Squad is made up of the Guizer Jarl's supporters. It is the principal of many squads, and the participants are called guizers.
3 – The Galley. Each year a replica of a Viking longship is built for Up Helly Aa.
Ottery St Mary
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Ottery St Mary, known as "Ottery", is a town and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England, on the River Otter, about 10 miles east of Exeter on the B3174. At the 2001 census, the pari
Up Helly Aa
…see lower numbers of participants in accordance with their lower populations. The current Lerwick celebration grew out of the older yule tradition of tar barrelling which took place at Christmas and New Year as well as Up Helly Aa. Squads of young men would drag barrels of burning tar through town on sledges, making…
Paternoster Row
Old Town Hall, Ottery St Mary
St Mary's Church viewed from north-east
The fan vaulting