• "As Rare as They Are Dire: Dragons, Tolkien, and Jakob Grimm," in Unhuman Breeds: The Deutsche Mythologie Revisited. Ed. Thomas A. Shippey. Tempe, Az: Arizona State Univ. Press, forthcoming 2003.

• Christine Rauer, Beowulf and the Dragon: Sources and Analogues (Review, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, submitted 8/15/2002).

Work in Progress

• Introductory Old English. An introductory grammar of Old English, with translation and grammar exercises, grammatical appendix, index of person- and place-names, comprehensive (concordance-style) glossary, and advanced readings; based on annals from the Peterborough manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

• Old-Norse Dragonlore: Fáfnir and His Analogues. A compendium of Old Norse-Icelandic prose and poetic texts in which the fabulous creature known as ormr or dreki ("worm/dragon") plays a narrative, gnomic, or encyclopedic role.

• The Scandinavian Vocabulary of the Peterborough Chronicle. A catalogue of more than 100 lexical and phrasal items derived from the Scandinavian language of the Danelaw in the late Old English of the Peterborough Chronicle.

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