In the narrow valley along the Storelva (river) lies the farm Langeland and above it Tveit and Tveiterås.
On the farm Tveit lived the fiddle maker Johannes Bårdsson Tveit, who made the famous “Tveita fiddles”. The composer Harald Sæverud (1897-1992) often visited his grandparents at Nytveit in his childhood, and he must have been inspired both by the experience of Nature and the tales of his great grandfather who was such a master fiddle maker.
On the neighbouring farm, Tveiterås we find still another gifted craftsman in the 1700s: the decorative painter Johannes Johannesson Tveiterås (1763-1842). Accounts tell us that he was supposed to have learnt the art from travelling people from Hallingdal, in East Norway, and this corresponds accurately with what we know from other sources. Johannes became a painter who established a tradition. His two sons, Johannes (b. 1791) and Nils (b. 1795) became decorative painters. Nils moved to Os and became the originator of a rich rose painting tradition in the Midthordland communities.
