Andrea Grafetstätter; PhD 2004; Lecturer of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Bamberg (Germany); Max Kade-professorship (2009) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA); organizer of a medieval theatre group with regular performances.Sieglinde Hartmann; PhD 1980; Professor of Medieval German Literature at the University of Würzburg (Germany), and at the Slavic University Baku (Azerbaijan); President of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft; editor-in-chief of the Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft.James Ogier; PhD 1981; Professor of German at the Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia (USA); specialties include medieval Scandinavian literature and Maya Studies.

• Contents: James Ogier: Islands and Skylands: An Eddic Geography – Sieglinde Hartmann: Insular Myths in the Nibelungenlied: Was Siegfried Slain on an Island? – Jarosław Wenta: Holy Islands and Their Christianization in Medieval Prussia – Patrizia Mazzadi: Dante and the Island of Purgatory – Maria E. Dorninger: The Island of Cyprus in Travel Literature of the Fourteenth Century – James Ogier: Insulae: Myths, Mujeres, and Mexico – Yuko Tagaya: Far Eastern Islands and Their Myths: Japan – Yuko Tagaya: Kyoto in Myth and Literature – Sieglinde Hartmann: A Medieval Poet’s Sense of Humour: Oswald von Wolkenstein and Emperor Sigismund in Paris – Andrea Grafetstätter: Foreign Culture in a Foreign Town. The Nuremberg Poet Jakob Ayrer and the Reception of Sixteenth-Century English Comedy Plays in Germany – Jacek Kowzan: Heavenly Jerusalem as a locus amoenus in Medieval and Early Modern Polish Literature.