Gudrid was Count Hamnet Thyssen's wife until he discovered she was unfaithful. After he divorced her, she married Eyvind Torfinn, an earl many years her senior. Even though they was divorced, she always made barbed comments to Count Thyssen, calculated to enrage him. His opinion of her was that she was a skilled adulturess, who would do anything for power or pleasure. In revenge, she attempted to get Thyssen arrested or at least exile by Imperial orders but was foiled when the count simply refused to accept the order. This incident just reinforced Thyssen's belief that Gudrid had Sigvat's ear.