"Guizer" redirects here. For other uses, see Guising (disambiguation).
Guizers at an Up Helly Aa celebration in Uyeasound, Shetland Islands, February 2010
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Up Helly Aa (/ˌʌphɛliˈɑː/UP-hel-ee-AH;[1][2] literally "Up Holy [Day] All") 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 procession by squads of costumed participants (known as guizers) that culminates in the burning of an imitation Viking galley. The largest festival held in Lerwick, Shetland's capital, involves a procession of up to a thousand guizers who march through the streets of Lerwick on the last Tuesday in January.[3] The other rural festivals (known as the 'country' Up Helly Aas)[4] see lower numbers of participants in accordance with their lower populations.
^"Up-Helly-Aa". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 27 February 2020.
^"Up-Helly-Aa". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
^"Up Helly Aa". Up Helly Aa official website. Up Helly Aa Committee. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
^"Lerwick Up Helly Aa". Shetland.org. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
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