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Category: Orkney and Shetland

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Up Helly Aa

Up Helly Aa – Shetland Isles: Complete Visitor Guide

Dating back to 1876, the fire festival as we recognize it today was created in response to a much earlier yuletide tradition where squads of young men in the Shetland town of Lerwick would drag burning barrels of tar through the streets.

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