Ole Knudsen Tvedten (1757/58 – 5 October 1837) was a Norwegian farmer and district sheriff. He served as a representative at the

Norwegian Constituent Assembly The Norwegian Constituent Assembly ( or ) is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised the dissolution of the union with Denmark. The meetings took place at the Eidsvoll Manor in th ...

in 1814. Ole Knudsen Tvedten was born in

Valle Valle may refer to: * Valle (surname) Geography *"Valle", the cultural and climatic zone of the dry subtropical Interandean Valles of the Andes of Peru, Bolivia, and northwest Argentina * University of Valle, a public university in Cali, Colomb ...

Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, ) was a county (''fylke'') in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was 2.2% of Norway's population. Its area was . ...

, Norway. From 1785, he served as bailiff and later district sheriff until his death. In 1783, he married Gyro Gunnufsdotter Kvestad (1764-1822) and in 1788 he took over his parents’ farm, Nordigard Tveiten in traditional district of

Setesdal Setesdal (; older name: Sætersdal) is a valley and a traditional district in Agder County in southern Norway. It consists of the municipalities of Bykle, Valle, Bygland, Iveland, and Evje og Hornnes. The Otra river flows through the val ...

. The couple had seven children. Following the death of his first wife in 1822, he was married to her cousin Margit Olsdotter Harstad (1804-185) with whom he had five children. He represented the Råbyggelaget district of Aust-Agder at the

in 1814, together with Thomas Bryn and Even Torkildsen Lande. At Eidsvoll, he supported inheritance rights and the side of the independence party (''Selvstendighetspartiet'') in the negotiations. His former home in Valle has been preserved and is open to the public.

Tveitetunet Tveitetunet is an open-air museum located at the Nordigard Tveiten (''Tveiti'') farm in the municipality of Valle in Agder county, Norway. The museum lies about south of the village of Valle, just about up the hill to the east of the Norwegian N ...

is owned and operated by the Setesdal Museum (''Setesdalsmuseet'').''Nordigard Tveiten'' (tveitetun)
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Setesdal Museum website
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20150813165401/http://eidsvollsmenn.no/english ''Men of Eidsvoll'' (eidsvollsmenn)

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