Thank you very much for your replies Sokaku and Knighttemplar. I have a double stake wall at this point around the boar building and my main house is across the river from it high up. Taking my time collecting stones the hard way and raising earth walls around it as well as wood for additional stake walls on top. I saw a neat built where someone built an earth wall trap with a tower at the end for shooting down from and am thinking of doing something similar at the far end of the rise. Also collecting as much core wood as I can already.
As a side note, I sat with my kids when they where in their teenage years to watch them play x-box, so I had conversation material outside school and home stuff with them. Now it is them who help me with some games, namely Pillars of Eternity and the Mass Effect collection. It is really nice to see the circle in all of this. I am on my own exploring Valheim though, which seems perfect for me, pacing and preparing as much as I can. Love the Steam community feedback.
Thank you very much and stay healthy all of you.