Religious iconography throughout the film is spliced together using shots from different churches and locations in the Faroe Islands, on the three islands filmed on, Sandoy, Streymoy and Vágoy.
Director Hanus Johannessen features in the film in the "recreation sequences" and can be seen crossing a stream, cleaning his knife and sheering. Furthermore, the "sheep" in the aforementioned scene was in fact not an actual live sheep, but rather an old sheep skin from the director's family farm, held up against the camera lens.
Many of the locations, subjects and props throughout the film are sourced via the director himself, who was the only crew member local to the islands. Jákup, the narrator, was the minister in the parish where Hanus grew up, Herborg is Hanus's best friend's grandmother, Hanus himself is dressed in old Faroese work clothes, which, in reality, is parts of his traditional costume, mixed with clogs and a woolen jumper.