Joyce T Lionarons (2000)
"Sometimes the dragon wins": unsuccessful dragon fighters in medieval literature
In: Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic. In Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr., ed. by Ed. Loren C. GRUBER. Edwin Mellen Press., Lewiston, vol. 60, vols. 1-2, pp. 301-316, Festschrift.
The article discusses the dragon fights in Beowulf, Gylfaginning, Ortnit and Wolfdietrich, and Þiðreks saga af Bern and examines the effects of the death of the dragon in myth.