Crossword-Solution: HALLSTATT 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The gay, little skiffs and long, open gondolas are flitting continually along the lake, which is the main street of Hallstatt.

But by far the best excursion from Hallstatt was an all-day trip to the Zwieselalp--a mountain which seems to have been especially created as a point of view.

Ridgeway, as is well known, attributes the introduction of cremation to a conquering northern people, the Achaeans, his "Celts." It is certain that cremation and urn burial of the ashes prevailed in Britain during the Age of Bronze, and co-existed with inhumation in the great cemetery of Hallstatt, surviving into the Age of Iron.

Read, for a brief account of Hallstatt culture.] Others suppose a change in Achaean ideas about the soul; it was no longer believed to haunt the grave and grave goods and be capable of haunting the living, but to be wholly set free by burning, and to depart for ever to the House of Hades, powerless and incapable of hauntings.

Ridgeway at Hallstatt, "in the heart of the Austrian Alps," where a thousand old graves have been explored.