The title of the film in Danish (Vanskabte Land) Icelandic translates to something more like "wretched land" or perhaps "godforsaken land" rather than "Godland" in the English title,
When the characters are speaking Danish, the subtitles are in normal script; when they're speaking Icelandic, the subtitles are in italics.
The dog who plays Ratnar's hound was awarded a Grand Jury "Canine Cast" Palm Dog at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
In the opening of the film, a title card states "A box was found in Iceland with seven wet plate photographs taken by a Danish priest. These images are the first photographs of the southeast coast. This film is inspired by these photographs." However, these images never existed. Hlynur invented the story to help inspire the filmmaking process. As part of the filming, several wet plate photographs were taken, one of which was used for the film's poster.
Two title cards, first in Danish, then Icelandic.