Count Hamnet Thyssen was a Raumsdalian member of the expedition that travelled to the Gap in the Glacier, that was once thought to be unpassable, to see what lay north of the Glacier. Bitter at the infidelity of his ex-wife Gudrid, whom he still loved somewhat, he accepted his sovereign Sigvat II's order to join the expedition. However, he was uncomfortable since he was accompanied by his spiteful ex-wife and her husband Earl Eyvind Torfinn.