Welcome to Valheim.
The game punishes you for dying, and players are supposed to die often.
It is meant to be this way and yes it is a pain in the ass.

Edit: btw if you only have troll armour, flaming arrows and a lvl4 bow and get killed by deathsquitos while hunting lox, you definitely are not where you should. I only dared to enter in the plains after I killed Moder and had full wolf gear