David Allen Schlaefer

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Nationality| American
Citizenship| United States of America
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* Diplomat
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David Allen Schlaefer is an American diplomat and author who is currently the United States Deputy Special Envoy to the International military intervention against ISIL.[1] In that capacity, he leads the Global Coalition’s Executive Secretariat, a multilateral office that serves as the coordinating mechanism for the 83-member coalition. A Texas native, Schlaefer has also served in Romania, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and Iraq. He was the Director for US-Japan Security Alliance affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo in the mid-2010s. He also served in a combined military-civilian Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Iraq from 2009-2010, attached to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team.

## Far Northern Land Saga[edit]

Schlaefer studied Finnish at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington Virginia for one year and was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki for another four years. During that time, he became interested in Finnish folklore and began research for what would become the Far Northern Land Saga, an epic fantasy trilogy set in the world of Finland’s Kalevala.[2] The trilogy’s three books, The Mark of the Bear Clan, The Heir of Lemminkainen, and The Queen of Pohjola, follow the lives of a young girl, Ulla, and young man, Egan, who fall in with the famous wizard Vainamoinen in a quest to save the Far Northern Land—ancient Finland—from the evil witch Louhi, the personification of winter. The books, each set at intervals of seven years, combine original characters with Kalevala legends like Väinämöinen, Lemminkäinen, and Louhi. Described as a classic take on the hero’s journey and redemption through suffering in a unique Finnish setting, the story is notable for its details of everyday life in iron age Finland and its increasingly tragic and melancholy mood as the saga approaches its climax.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ https://www.state.gov/biographies/david-a-schlaefer/
2. ↑ https://dartfrogbooks.com/

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