Up-Helly-Aa

/ (ˌʌpˈhɛlɪɑː) /

noun

a midwinter festival held in January in Shetland; originally a fire festival, but now a celebration of Shetland's Norse heritage, involving the ceremonial burning of a newly built Viking ship

Word Origin for Up-Helly-Aa

from up (in the sense: finished) + haliday a Scottish form of holiday