It was a learning piece, an apprentice book, because writing is not just a talent but a skill. It's something you have to learn and develop. It's a slow process. Dreams are too flimsy and unstable for that. Still, these were very strong dreams.
Some dreams seem to stay in the mind for years with a clarity that approaches that of real life.
Before that I had had almost no contact with Greenland. I knew something about it, because Greenland used to be a Danish colony. I grew up in a very poor part of Copenhagen where there were many Greenlanders. So it was a part of my cultures of course, but it was not something I was that interested in. Out of these two dreams grew a certain feelings and I knew I had to write this book.