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I've noticed from the beginning that no one likes my reading of mallier aller lucorum her, but all of it is in northern dialect except luc'z (which is Latin for luc[orum] which means green).


male, malle, mallier is "to paint" in Norse and some of the northern German and Norman regions
aller is "all" in Norse
her is "here" in Norse

(I'm using Norse as shorthand to refer to the old medieval Scandinavian languages, all of which share common vocabulary.)

It's readable even today, the words haven't changed. The spelling has barely changed. The "r" at the end of "aller" isn't unusual, some people pronounce it that way, the only significant oddity is the "i" in mallier and even that isn't odd in the context of Normandy/northern France where some of the French forms were sprinkled in by "Nor'men" (north men—Scandinavians), the settlers who migrated south and west along the coast to northern France and what is now the Netherlands.


I'm not insisting this is what it is, because there aren't enough words to be sure, but if it is related to old Norman/Norse, it's completely readable.