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Stephen A. McNallen (born October 15, 1948) is a spiritual leader (goði) and founder of the Asatru Folk Assembly of which he is also the Alsherjargothi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AFA Update 1-15-11 )〕 Born in Breckenridge, Texas, he has been heavily involved in Ásatrú, a reconstructed native European religion, since the 1970s, overseeing the collapse and rise of 3 different organisations.〔Stephen A. McNallen, "Three Decades of the Ásatrú Revival in America", in Joshua Buckley & Michael Moynihan (eds.), TYR: Myth - Culture - Tradition, Volume 2 (Atlanta: Ultra, 2003-2004), p. 205.〕 ==Life== Born Stephen Anthony McNallen in Breckenridge, Texas, on October 15, 1948, his Roman Catholic parents brought him up religiously.〔()〕 After high school, he attended Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McNallen Biography - Asatru Folk Assembly )〕 He started out as a cadet in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and aspired to a career in the US Army's Special Forces.〔 In 1972 he reported for active duty as an Army officer, attended the infantry officer course, then earned his parachutist wings and the black-and-gold Ranger tab.〔Stephen A. McNallen, "Three Decades of the Ásatrú Revival in America", in Joshua Buckley & Michael Moynihan (eds.), TYR: Myth - Culture - Tradition, Volume 2 (Atlanta: Ultra, 2003-2004), p. 206.〕 He received his degree in political science, trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, and served the rest of his four-year commitment in Germany. After his discharge from the Army in 1976, McNallen hitchhiked across the Sahara Desert before returning to Europe and then to the United States.〔 and in the same year moved to Berkeley, California.〔Stephen A. McNallen, "Three Decades of the Ásatrú Revival in America", in Joshua Buckley & Michael Moynihan (eds.), TYR: Myth - Culture - Tradition, Volume 2 (Atlanta: Ultra, 2003-2004), p. 208.〕 In 1986-87 McNallen worked as a peace officer in Stephens County Texas sheriff's office jail and Sheila kept books for an oil company.〔〔 in 1986, he and Sheila moved to a semi-deserted mining town in the mountains of California, and from there earned teaching credentials, and for six years he taught science and mathematics in a California middle school, a junior high school teacher in Nevada County, and tried to find meaning in life.〔〔Stephen A. McNallen, "Three Decades of the Ásatrú Revival in America", in Joshua Buckley & Michael Moynihan (eds.), TYR: Myth - Culture - Tradition, Volume 2 (Atlanta: Ultra, 2003-2004), p. 209.〕 He has worked as a journalist, traveling to Northern India and Burma to report on the military conflicts in the region. He later travelled to Africa and Bosnia to report on the wars in those regions in 1993.〔 Some of his adventures were turned into articles and published by Soldier of Fortune magazine, among others.〔〔Natividad, Ivan; (Local veteran leads group to save African elephants ), The Union of Grass Valley, November 14, 2014〕〔Stephen A. McNallen, "Three Decades of the Ásatrú Revival in America", in Joshua Buckley & Michael Moynihan (eds.), TYR: Myth - Culture - Tradition, Volume 2 (Atlanta: Ultra, 2003-2004), p. 210.〕 From 1987-1996, McNallen was in the California Army National Guard. His unit was called up during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles and was one of the few Americans to have stood on the famous corner of Hollywood and Vine with a loaded M-16 rifle. 〔 He married Sheila Edlund in Utah in 1997 at Althing 17 in a ceremony officiated by Valgard Murray of the Asatru Alliance.〔(A Marriage! ) TOP ASATRU NEWS STORIES OF 1997 (2247 R.E.) ONN- Odin's Nation News〕 He worked as a Juvenile Hall Group Supervisor and retired from his position as a juvenile corrections officer in 2014.〔()〕 He and his wife, Sheila, live in Grass Valley, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irene Loretz )〕〔Gardell 261〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen McNallen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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