Thrond Sjursen Haukenæs (March 4, 1840 – November 14, 1922)[1] was a Norwegian folklore collector and an author, publisher, and distributor of his own works.
Haukenæs initially worked as a shepherd, and then spent several years fishing for herring and also traveling around as a book seller.
After meeting Peter Christen Asbjørnsen during a collection expedition in Hardanger in the summer of 1870, Haukenæs also started gathering folk material in the district.
In 1882 he published a request in several newspapers in Western Norway for people in Hardanger, Voss, and neighboring villages to send him manuscript collections with oral traditions.
Haukenæs was extremely productive, but did not trust his own writing skills, and so he sought help from the more experienced writer Jon Nilsson Skaar from Botnen at the head of Fykse Sound.