Originally posted by DragonIV:

Lessons about the swamp:
1. NEVER take a boat anywhere near a swamp for much time--those Draugr archers will happily walk underwater to that boat and shoot it. Find a forest or meadow nearby to drop your ship.
2. Learn how to fight the Abominations. The hop onto a crypt method is ideal. They always show at the worst times. Use an axe or knife on em, or use fire arrows at distance.
3. Always be rested.
4. Blunt damage and a parry shield are your friends.
5. Good food and poison potions are also a must.

I play solo (on a server, so no cheating), and have been plenty safe with just iron armor and weaps in the swamp. Once you get silver, build Frostner. It's a great swamp weapon. :)

For Abominations you can use one of those Surtling fire spawners to burn the thing just kite it in circles so the monster keeps turning around or walking over the flames, combined with my road strategy you can make it one of the easiest enemies to deal with, the rain will protect you from the Surtlings and you can just have shallow water over the spawner so they instantly take water damage.

Swamp isn't bad at all, especially with the root armour set it's superior to iron in many ways and doing it the way I suggested is very low risk so you can do it even in the bronze age.

For the wraiths just don't be there at night or parry them with a bronze buckler and don't try to run away from it they will easily be able to catch you.