Read Ivanhoe in Dutchwith every sentence explained

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott was first published in 1819. In Passage you read the full text in the Dutch translation by M.P. Lindo (ed. Jan ten Brink, d. 1901), marked advanced and filed under historical fiction and romance. It runs to about 175,000 words.

England, 1194. Saxons against Normans, a disinherited knight and a tournament that changes everything.

King Richard the Lionheart is a prisoner abroad, and his scheming brother Prince John holds England. Saxon and Norman nobles despise each other, outlaws hide in the forests, and the proud Saxon Cedric has disowned his own son, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, for following Richard on crusade — and for loving Cedric's ward, the beautiful Lady Rowena.

At the great tournament of Ashby, a mysterious knight whose shield bears the word Desdichado — “Disinherited” — defeats the Norman champions one after another. Around him gather a Black Knight of enormous strength, a band of forest archers, the Jewish merchant Isaac and his brave, brilliant daughter Rebecca, and the dark Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert.

Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1819) all but invented the historical adventure novel. In this classic Dutch translation it remains a thrilling ride of duels, sieges and divided loyalties.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Dutch. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate Dutch book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.