In Shetland, the end of Yule is marked with Up Helly Aa, one of Europe’s largest fire festivals. Created by the Abstinence Society in the 1870s, the festival involves a procession of 1000 torch bearers, ending with the burning of a replica Viking longship.
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winter was not the season this sweet one had planned to bloom. sometimes you must rise when the weight of the earth is too heavy. even while longing for a warmth you have yet to know.