One HOT Festival!!! Americans React "Up Helly Aa | Scotland's Viking Fire Festival Shetland Islands"
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That was great. I heard it said that if you scratch any part of the British Isles it bleeds history.
Just be wary if you’re the “special guest” and they lead you up the ladder to inspect the inside of the wicker man! 👍🤣👀
That’s the Western isles
My father took part in Up Helly Aa in the 1970s and 1980s….he is long since dead, but as a son, I would love to walk in his shoes and participate in one more Up Helly Aa to honour my father.
Yes it's a work of Art, that's the point, they are making a worthwhile offering to the festival gods to bring them good fortune for the coming year :-)
The Wicker Man (1973) is a movie made in Scotland about a 'burning man' pagan cult, starring Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward (The Equalizer). Not to be confused with the rubbish from Nicholas Cage in 2006.
I’m a Shetlander and it’s massive in Shetland, nowhere else. People come from all over the world to see it and the day after, everything is closed, all the shops, schools etc. Great to see you do a video about us Shetlanders and we’re usually just outcasts. We get left off maps and not many people knows Shetland exists, even though it has Shetland ponies, shetland sheepdogs, Europes largest oil terminal and of course Up Helly Aa
In Scotland the winters are very dark. We are on the same latitude as Alaska so it can be dark by 3pm and dawn can be 9am. Fire has always been used in festivals all over Scotland in Winter. In Summer the days are very long and in the Northern Islands, of Orkney and Shetland they have a time around midsummer when it doesn’t get dark at all.
The Picts.
Who got wiped out by our Norse ancestors?.
The Picts.
@@Trollberg60north naw, the picts did not ''get wiped out'' genetically they/we are still here, probably more pict then Norse genetically in Scotland, but picts did not keep records very well culturally, you can see some of their remnants cemented into churches in the form of sheela na gigs (poor spelling its late) as the church began to Hellenise them/us. but ''wiped out'' no!.
A question for the wise, when did the people of shetland start speaking with a Scottish accent and stop speaking Norwegian?
@@pjmoseley243 If you hear a good Shetland voice today especially a group of Shetlanders speaking it would be impossibe for you to follow. I know the Scots have difficulty understanding many of our words because they're Norse. Sadly, the schools have ethnically cleansed the Shetland language by stopping the children from speaking it so most children speak that dreadful Scots English now.
@@Ian-if2lf
The sheela-na-gig carvings are actually 11th century Spanish and French in origin - arriving in England with Norman Romanesque architecture (later spreading to Scotland and Ireland). Absolutely nothing at all to do with the Picts.
I was lucky enough to live and work in Haroldswick for two years in the late 80s early 90s. Beautiful scenery and wonderful people from Hermaness to Sumburgh Head.
My Mother is from Shetland and I've visited several times. I got a bit misty eyed watching this. Thanks!
Shetland look lit, its just freezing and so far out of the way.
Stonehaven in northern scotland beside me does a fireball ceremony.
Just walking down the street swinging giant balls of fire. 😂
You would, and all visitors are, made very welcome at Up Helly Aa. I’m the “Galley Foreman”, in charge of building the replica longship, and due to to be Guizer Jarl in 2027. A great festival!
Good video and reaction. This festival gets about 2mins 🏴 TV News.
Daniel sheding a tear, all that burning wood, how many lances he could make from all the oars.
18:30 Peter Parkers in the building 🥳
Up Helly Aa is always on the last Tuesday in January. I'm lucky enough to live in Lerwick, and will be going along to watch the procession. Good video, great reaction!
I'm from Shetland but moved away when I was younger. I do come back often as my family is huge and 90% all still live up there. We've been part of the Jarl squad multiple times too. I miss staying up there at times but don't miss the long winter nights 🤣
I've been to Shetland twice but annoyingly haven't made an Up Helly Aa yet
It's on my bucket list and im Scottish , it's surprising how many people don't know about it , might try and go next year , driving the NC500 first
The dedication to their heritage is awesome, as soon as the festival is done, preparation starts for the next one. if only Daniel hadn't burnt that old decking he could have built his own ship
Communities coming together to celebrate their history, few beers and dancing. What's not to like!
I was born in shetland all my family still live in Lerwick and honestly the rick history the Norwegian connection so proud
No way I'm from Shetland 🤣🤣🤣
My family come from a long line of Jarls!! I've also been part of the squads on 3 occasions. Crazy to see this here hahaha.
Shetland is perhaps my favourite place in the world, been there on holiday twice now
@@DK-cy5mt Its a hidden Gem thats for sure.
@@SelfMade717 I'd cheerfully move there, I keep an eye on NHS Shetland for jobs, my wife's a Yorkshire home bird though and doesn't want to shift
@Purple Burglaralarm convincing my wife is proving difficult, she loves Shetland but is very much a Yorkshire home bird
@Purple Burglaralarm I can imagine, we're in Yorkshire so they're not exactly nice
Hi bhoys another guid vid, I live in Shetland and the Uphellaa kin be fun. After the galley is burned all the halls (250/300 fowk usually attend each hall) start to fill. The bit i think you pair really wid enjoy is the fact the music between the acts coming in is all traditional scottish country dancing and drinking fae 8pm till 8am food is always provided as you usually pay a "donation" to receive a ticket , it use to be that you took a turn clearing up and helping serve the food(Soup/bannocks/sandwiches and home bakes. Very funny seeing a smurf and a 6ft tin o lager stumbling doon the road at 6 am quite surreal. You would enjoy and well worth the journey to see as there are fowk fae aw ower the world there
'Bhoys'? Keep that pish for your Celtic pages, embarrassment as per. 2 American guys who struggle understanding Scottish & you're writing in slang?
@@AD270479 it's not slang. They speak Norn in Shetland. It's all part of the rich cultural tapestry of Scotland.
Ross, don't go down that dreadful sectarian Scottish road(bhoys). As Junior Jarl be proud of our viking and norse heritage!.
@@dougiemilnephotography756 We're not Scotland.
@@Trollberg60north OP isn't even typing in true Shetland Dialect either. Imagine he was 🤣🤣.
"Scottish slang" hahahahaha brilliant.
I had no idea this was an event. Fantastic thanks for uploading
Up Helly Aa is live streamed every year.
Stonehaven has a fire (ball) festival you may wish to check out, too.
My son lives in Stonehaven and they have a fire festival thats fantastic,,,,,,,,,,people marching through town swinging firballs around their heads, live music and DRINK
The Viking also settled on main land Scotland though more along the north west coast. As with the Romans we managed to keep them out the majority of what was Pictland/Alba at the time.
Great video as usual guys, but the info is a bit dodgy. The Vikings never defeated The Picts as they were none left by that time. They did fight The Scots tho, and were comprehensively defeated in the battle of Largs in 1263.
hi lads .....The Wickerman Festival was an annual music festival held near Auchencairn in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
A wicker man was purportedly a large wicker statue in which the druids (priests of Celtic paganism) sacrificed humans and animals by burning. The main evidence for this practice is a sentence by Roman general Julius Caesar in his Commentary on the Gallic War (1st century BC),[1] which modern scholarship has linked to an earlier Greek writer, Poseidonius.[2][3]
An 18th-century illustration of a wicker man. Engraving from A Tour in Wales written by Thomas Pennant.
There is some archaeological evidence of human sacrifice among Celtic peoples, although it is rare.[4] The ancient Greco-Roman sources are now regarded somewhat skeptically, considering it is likely they "were eager to transmit any bizarre and negative information" about the Celts, as it benefited them to do so.[5][6]
The British horror film The Wicker Man (1973) brought the wicker man into popular culture.[7] In recent times, a wicker man (without human or animal sacrifices) has been burned at some neopagan ceremonies, and festivals such as Burning Man.[7] It has also been referenced in music and art
The name Halloween comes from a Scottish shortening of All Hallows’ Eve and has its roots in the Gaelic festival of Sam'hain , men would go out Guising = dress up as old women crones - witches on all souls eve. Later kids would dress up as ghosts or ghouls but by the 1960s American influences would come in and kids started dress up anything from cowboys to spacemen and girl witches to god knows what - and the term Guising faded away to be replaced by Trick or Treat
The main Viking centre in Britain was the Orkney Islands as the land is more fertile. The Jarls (Earls) were mainly in Orkney and some of the top raiders down Britains west coast came from Orkney. The suffix -ay means island so, for example, Rousay comes from Hrolf’s Island. Lundy between Wales and Devon means Puffin Island. The story of Orkney’s Viking history was recorded by an Icelandic scholar in a book called The Orkneyinga Saga. Sadly the island culture is disappearing.
All Scots kids go Guising on Halloween
Yep. Guising, ie going in disguise to stop the evil spirits recognising you, is a Scottish Hallowe'en tradition which predates Trick or Treat by centuries! They go around the houses and HAVE TO PERFORM eg a song, after which the householder will give a gift of sweets. Unlike our American cousins, they do not demand treats with menaces! 😉
The "Vagabrothers" brothers are really great video-creators. Deffo check out their UK adventures series. I found them years ago!
Up Helly Aa is very much a Shetland tradition, but this annual event is always reported on the Scottish/UK news. The only similar celebration I can think of on the Scottish mainland is the Stonehaven Fireballs celebration which is Stonehaven's way of bringing in the New Year. Both are very popular and worth seeing if you get the chance.
In Moray town called Burghead celebrates the burning of the Clavie on Jan 11th, it marks the occasion that Hogmanay was formally celebrated
What nae Icelandic sagas telling us king harald took the east coast of Scotland - its kept ti Shetland for a reason
The annals of Ulster tells us of a pictish chief from North East Scotland beheading a Norseman (viking)
We have the viking festival also near my town on the west coast of Scotland (largs) every September.
The town is full of viking stuff also and every year for 2 weeks during the festival they have the viking village in the town and u can be waking about the town just doing ur thing like standing in a que at ur local supermarket and there's a viking waiting in line also 🤣.
At the end of the 2 weeks we have the battle down the sea front with the vikings and the Scots and of course we win and then the burning of the boat followed by a fireworks display. The final day is the best day especially for kids.
Makes sense why there isn’t many thatched roofs in this town!!!! 🔥
The Scots and the Norse, a perfect match. Booze, burds and burnin' things. Let's hae a party 🤣🎶
Guys you need to do a video about the "Shetland bus" which isn't about buses at all but events that happened during WW2
Shetlanders work to live, not live to work. Wonderful people.
Seems appropriate to comment
Would love to go see that, not made it yey but some day..... Reminds me of Glasgow on a saturday night after an old firm game!!!
Ah a Ceildh, is it a dance or closer to a full contact sport?🤔😂
I was in that jarlsquad that year it was a privilege to be in it
Guising is what you call Trick or Treat, and used to be celebrated not just at Halloween, but through past Christmas and on till Candlemas on Feb the 2nd.
I didn't get home until 8am what an amazing night it was
this one has been on my bucket list to go to for some time.
Ahaha!, no way, I live in Lerwick and I've watched a few of your videos but never thought I'd see you watching our Up-Helly-Aa.
Just for the record, it's not "Scotland's Viking Fire Festival" Up-Helly-Aa.
It's the Lerwick Up-Helly-Aa in Shetland :) .
We don't consider ourselves part of Scotland and technically we aren't(despite what Visit Scotland think there's no legal document in existence that makes us part of Scotland).
For some reason I think Spencer would fit in well into the whole viking thing!?🤔 Daniel, you might have to work on your look a little, dude.😉 Thanks for uploading, guys. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🏴👍
The Vikings (also known as Veringians) founded the Kievan Rus (the land from which Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia descended from).
The Normans from Normandy in Northern France were originally Vikings from Scandinavia and had only lived in France for 80 years before they conquered England in 1066.
The Veringians who came from Kievan Rus became the bodyguards for the Byzantine Emperors of Constantinople (Istanbul).
The Normans were descendants of Rollo and his men who were Norwegian vikings, who had settled on the Isle of Man and raided along the French coast and in particular up the River Seine. So much so that the Frankish King paid him off with money and what became Normandy.
It's on my wish list, but it's a shame he missed out all the history of the festival itself, The first torch celebration on Up Helly Aa Day took place in 1881.According to the Shetland Museum, the catalyst for the establishment of Up Helly Aa was the boredom of young men after their return from fighting in the Napoleonic Wars and saw them drawing inspiration from the islands' Viking history, its thought to be a offshoot from the flaming tar barrel tradition that was already around, mixed with the strong viking link they hold
We have huge viking heritage up here, Also we don't see ourselves as Scottish but Shetlanders. You'll find more Shetland or Norway flags flying up here than any Scottish or Union Jack.
it was actually fae tar barreling, but that got too dangerous fir the fowk so they came up wi the galley idea. The original tar barreling has hee haw tae dae wi vikings
Yer haverin wee man, the Shetland flag wis created by a sooth moother(Saltire and nordic cross combined)
@@rossrmorrison I never said I wasn't 🤣🤣
fact is the majority of flags flying are either shetland or Norway. Your not seeing Union Jack's or saltires anywhere or very little
There's a great video of a fully decked-out Jarl squad singing Burning Love during the 2017 Up Helly Aa festival.
Stonehaven fire festival is another one from Scotland that they mentioned.
and the burnin o da clavie
Just read that this is first year women have been allowed to walk in the fire lit procession. Hello 2023.
if you can try and find a show called still game,,, its a bunch of old fellas and its very funny,, its beloved in scotland im english and all my family utterly love it,,,
Up Helly Aa is exclusively Shetland rather than Scottish in general. If you want to see Viking shit, they have some in the Yorvik Museum in York. Literally.
I’ve always wanted to go to this festival… hopefully one day
It's fantastic. I used to take it for granted when younger because it was just a regular thing every year.
@@SelfMade717 I think that quite common not realising what on our own door step.. do you go now? I bet it amazing to be apart of!
@@michellehardman50 yea I've been a part of them when younger and my Grandad has been the head Jarl on 2 different occasions.
I still watch them often also as the majority of my family still stay there.
If you ever plan on travelling then it's pretty cheap if you just take a sleeping pod. Around £20 for the overnight ferry.
Or you can fly from Aberdeen. 45 mins.
The accommodation around that time can be quite pricey though. Book well in advance as there's only so many hotels, B and Bs or hostels to accommodate all the tourist who go up. Or just grab a decent tent, sleeping bag and camp 🤣
The Vikings didn't conquer the Picts, infact the Vikings actively avoided the Picts after their first confrontation with the Picts were the Vikings got their arses kicked, the stayed very close to the ocean in order to make a quick get away in the event of the Picts attacking.
A recent translation of one of the Viking saga's states that Vikings should only step on Scottish soil if they were ready to go to Valhalla. Another saga that was translated states when Vikings first encountered the Picts and got their Viking arses kicked they said 'They must be descended from Vikings in order for the Picts to fight like that', the Vikings were quite arrogant even in defeat. I have a theory that the Vikings were actually descended from Neolithic people in what's known as Scotland today. Neolithic 'Scots' colonised the land after the ice sheets retreated after the last ice age 13 thousand years ago, The Scandenavian countries were still under a mile of ice and nobody lived there, when that ice finally retreated in the Scandenavian countries the neolithic Scots headed for that new land and became Viking. If you understand ice ages and migration this theory makes complete sense.
Also we don't need guard rails in the UK, we have something better and cheaper 'common sense'.
This years (2023) Guiser Jarl took 15 years from the time he applied to the time he became Guiser Jarl. 15 years, some waiting list.
It was last night and awesome. A 3 year wait because of covid.
You'd be the couch potato squad, dressed as sofas.
Guys Up Helly Ya is a Shetland tradition
It’s the same if you go to the Orkney’s. They were originally Norwegian and even to this day if you call somebody from the Orkney’s “Scottish” they would be most offended. They would remind you that they are “Auk’s”!
quite a few toons here that are nordice largs is one of them
Anglo Saxons saw the Vikings off thank god
Burning the boat is to do with sacrifice to whatever gods your trying to rise to your will! Part of the sacrifice is all the labour it has taken to build it, if you looked closely it looked as though the infrastructure was probably three ply boards cut to shape and stitched together just for the sacrifice.
Cheers Boys!
The vikings left Scandinavia because it’s f*cking cold and you can hardly grow enough food. The British Isles was just enough further south it seemed like a warm paradise they should to try to conquer for their purposes. Which considering how sh*t and rainy our weather is, it shows you how desperate they were.
Hey guys , check out the Techno Viking ...
He's a legend !
Have " burning seed" in Australia. ( we burn a woman) most people get naked for the burn,, perhaps a bit cold in Scotland for that!
If you are going to burn a boat, burn a boat. Not a float. Anything else would be an insult to Odin and Njord!
I'm a mere Englishman, but I think the vloggers got something wrong. The normal way to describe this area is 'Shetland' in the singular, although there are many islands; it's similar with 'Orkney'. Other commenters may well be right in saying that both Shetland and Orkney don't really consider themselves Scottish. The locals are trying to revive their ancient, not-long-extinct language known as 'Norn', which is a Scandinavian language.
Shetland has benefited a great deal from the oil boom in the nearby seas, but I've been told that Shetland has invested the money wisely, and Shetland has a
tes in the UK.
In the 780s the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne (=Charles the Great) brutally and forcibly "converted" the North German Saxons to Christianity. The Viking raids may have been a reprisal.
Let me take this opportunity to de-bunk a TOTAL MYTH (that so often appears in films, cartoons, images, plastic/fake/joke helmets and similar of Vikings):
Vikings NEVER had HORNS on their helmets; It's a well documented and proven myth!!!
That 'image' is down to a German costume designer, Carl Emil Doepler, who included HORNED helmets in his gorgeous costume designs, for the 1876 performance of Wagner's classic Norse saga, Der Ring des Nibelungen! He put (stereotypical ancient and medieval) German headdresses - like horned helmets - on the Viking heads... And the 'myth' stuck (except in the Scandinavian countries who know the truth and are pretty tired explaining it).
The Viking armour looked a bit unhistorical, and did all Vikings really wear uniforms? But it does look a very fun festival.
Always be Scottish!!
Guysers also go out on Halloween mainly children. Disguised they should tell a joke, sing a song or do a dance. Not just ask trick or treat .
Well in lads. Hope you get there for a look. Unst especially, you'll feel like your not n earth anymore. :)
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I went to Up Helly Aa 4 years ago. Very cool, very beautiful place, but the 15 hour ferry journey was awful. I vomited all over my self half an hour into the journey and spent the remaining 14.5 hour journey curled up in a ball wishing for death.
Just for context boys - this is pertained specifically to Shetland
We dinnae celebrate this on the mainland
Suppose it beats tossing a log!!?.
@@dexter6205 log tossing sounds Irish to me
@@johnmaclagan2263 iam pretty sure Mel Gibson supported my opinion in the film braveheart,tossing a log!!!.haha
They mixed a lot of Swedish stuff for Shetland in the video, like Smorgasbord and IKEA. Wrong vikings, they were Norwegian vikings in Shetland.
if you want to live long dont call orkney islanders scotish there very into there viking roots lol
It's a Shetland Island thing. Inland Scotland doesn't bother with it. You'll get folk from the mainland travel there for it, but we don't have any events anywhere else for it.
Every year in Largs, West Coast of Scotland they hold the annual viking festival, not as big as shetlands but it last 2 weeks with the viking village in the town and on the last day they have the viking fight with the Scots followed with the burning of the boat.
Also from what I read somewhere in Largs but there's no 100 percent evidence that the thistle became the Scottish emblem after the vikings tried to sneak up on the Scots who were sleeping in the hills in the back of Largs and 1 of the vikings stood on a thistle and gave a huge scream in agony and that woke up the Scots who ended up battling with them in the hills and chased them bk onto there boats and that's how the battle of Largs was won and the thistle became the flower of Scotland.
Be good if its true 😀
Guys. There is plenty of drink.. its purely a shetland tradition. There are several held over the islands throughout the winter. The video is good but doesn't do it justice. You are certainly most welcome to come and visit
Who’s that pulling away from Mareel at 16.40 ?
@dafergy Fergy. Was 2018 so is it not Graham Kent's (Pete took it over 2019) avensis
Spencer would make a good Viking he would look cool in a viking helmet lol
And just to clarify: Vikings NEVER had horned helmets (It's a total myth) !!! That 'image' is down to Costume designer Carl Emil Doepler, who included HORNED helmets in his gorgeous costume designs, for the 1876 performance of Wagner's classic Norse saga, Der Ring des Nibelungen! He put stereotypical ancient and medieval German headdresses - like horned helmets - on Viking heads... And the 'myth' stuck (except in the Scandinavian countries who know the truth).
Cool thanks for the info
I mean, you're not wrong. Many are fully salable and they ARE a work of art but if you make a facsimile and burn that instead, in 100 years they'll be burning a cardboard cutout the size of a newspaper. Best to keep traditions whole. Uphellyah!
Have you watched Sophie Hermann on WILTY
Apologies for my ancestors on my dad's side of the family. They liked pillaging and burning stuff.
Ayr killed the king of Norway boys he was his brother
No, it's not a melting pot. She said it's on the way to other countries as it's nearest Norway going west.
May I just say that, your "drink" didn't sound Scottish or Irish. All the best.
Oh, the American in the video said Hogmanay is New Year's Day. It's not, it's New Year's Eve. As you were.
Great video!!!! I just wish the soundtrack to the original video was less 'Techno' and more 'trad'.
It's not Scotland's it's just Shetlands. Scotland is just a secondary identity to most native Shetlanders. There's an up helly aa for every populated area of Shetland, Lerwick is the biggest but not necessarily the best.
We were stolen by Scotland and they banned our language, culture and traditions
Not sure how they are full of viking history when the Vikings perse never existed. The word Viking was made up by Hollywood. Nowhere is there any record of this name used, they were known as the northmen, or Norse. And they also never ever wore wings on their helmets. So really this festival can not even get it's facts right
Nah burning man is full of disrespectful hippies , that was in insult saying its the same as this..
Like Orcadians Don’t call the Scots They’re proudly separate and Viking
You like humour. Mostly from men as I note. Watch Sarah Millican Muckiest Jokes. Female based humour. Are you brave enough to watch it.
Vikings - Rape, pillage, murder, conquer lorded as a good thing? weird🤣🤣✌️
Please stop lying factual information is 100 percent Scottish like Iceland factual 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂
If you ever come to the UK, do not talk about it being in Europe. Europe is a landmass and does not include islands and 51% of the population will be extremely angry if you call them European.
What are you talking about? Only Brexitty a*seholes maybe but even then I'm pretty sure most won't be "extremely angry"
Of course we are European!
The European Union is not Europe.
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