Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture, and Community in Shetland by Callum G. Brown
Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture, and Community in Shetland

Callum G. Brown

Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture, and Community in Shetland

Callum G. Brown

219 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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Up-Helly-Aa is Europe's largest and most spectacular winter fire festival. In the biting Arctic wind on the last Tuesday of every January, a Guizer Jarl leads one thousand men in guising costumes with flaming torches through the streets of Lerwick...

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