Me too luckily the autosave let me load to before i entered eastford.(i walked from nortmarket)
so i think maybe lets test if its possible to go to eastford via horse and yes eastford is not attacked, gifted my ladies and left eastford to re-enter immediately, and now it was under Attack, played to the point with juggernaut and now it worked properly defeated juggernaut and no respawn, not sure what the problem is. Maybe not walking to eastford?