Working from the Icelandic sagas, mainly The Saga of Erik the Red and The Greenlanders´ Saga, Brynja Benediktsdottir has reconstructed the saga of Gudridur Thorbjarnardottir. Gudridur´s saga tells about the first settlement in North America by Iclanders five centuries before Columbus came around the year 1005. This was a pivotal time when Iceland and Greenland became Christian from heathen. These sagas were once kept alive through oral tradition, so by retelling them (but adding modern methods and perspectives) the author pays homage to this tradition and the elders who kept them alive.