I’ve previously discussed reading Ferdinand de Saussure’s work, mainly around the variant texts of his posthumously published Course on General Linguistics, and some of his early work on Indo-European languages.

Saussure’s notes on German legends are one of the other major posthumous publishing projects of his work. He had the project of seeing how the structures of legends could be related to the structure of language, but it was unfinished and he published nothing.

There are various collections of the manuscripts in Geneva. They overlap, and are not organised in a reader-friendly way. It took a lot of work to make sense of them, and this page provides some analysis, with cross-references between the different editions of these manuscripts. I did (most of) this because it was useful for me, but then decided to finish the job and share it. Maybe – hopefully? – someone else will find it useful.

Corrections and additions – especially for the one sentence missing – very welcome.

There are some other research resources related to the Indo-European thought project here.