Up Helly Aa from Upholiday, the lowland Scots word for Twelfth Day, and was brought by them to the Shetland Islands in the 19th century. There is a main guizer who is dubbed the "Jarl". There is a committee which a person must be part of for 15 years before one can be a jarl, and only one person is elected to this committee each year. The procession culminates in the torches being thrown into a replica Viking longship or galley. The event happens all over Shetland and is currently celebrated at ten locations – Scalloway, Lerwick, Nesting and Girlsta, Uyeasound, Northmavine, Bressay,
Sixareen of a group of volunteers, after 800 hours work, the "Far Haaf", a replica sixareen was completed in 1988, but was destroyed by a hurricane which swept the isles in 1992. Another "Far Haaf" was built and launched in 1993. It now occupies a special enclosure outside the Unst boat haven. Another sixareen, the "Vaila Mae", was built in 2008 for the Shetland Museum in Lerwick, where it can be seen on the water during the summer months. Sixareen The sixareen or sixern (; meaning "six-oared") is a traditional fishing boat used around the Shetland Islands. It is a clinker-built