Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the viking raids on britain. Home was a longhouse, one of several in the settlement; a stockade protected the small community from bears and wolves roaming t...Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the viking raids on britain. Home was a longhouse, one of several in the settlement; a stockade protected the small community from bears and wolves roaming the vast glacial wilderness.