Halldor Olson Opedal (May 26, 1895 – January 17, 1986) was a Norwegian teacher and folklorist from Lofthus in the Hardanger district.
[2] He traveled extensively in the area and collected folk tradition and dialect material from the Hardanger countryside by listening to old people who were skilled at telling stories.
[2] Opedal also wrote a description of the people at the Kjeåsen mountain farm in the Simadal Fjord titled Kjeåsfolket i Hardanger.
Soga om eit utkantfolk (The People of Kjeåsen in Hardanger.
A bronze bust of Opedal, created in 1995 by Oddmund Raudberget, is displayed in the center of Lofthus today.