Both travelers left Bremen on May 16, 1613 and on June 7, 23 days later, the ship landed in the western part of Iceland, in Nesvogur bay under the hill Helgafell.
All of the events of the Saga take place in one small region of Snæfellsnes, shifting between Álptafjord, which cuts into the northern shore of the peninsula, and Helgafell, the farmstead on Thórsnes, where Snorri Goði resided.
Guðrún was the first nun and recluse in Iceland, and she died and was buried at Helgafell.
Helgafell also appears in the Laxdæla saga as the location where the heroine Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir last lived and is supposedly where she is buried.