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I wrote You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. it could be pullamina (foal / chicks).

I see "vull" rather than "pull". You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. suggests that "vull" = "voll" in some German regions (like e.g. "voll" in "Vollmond"). But the Latin-looking second part of the word would be strange in this context.

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

For me, there are two problems with this reading. First, that not all is painted green here. Second, that the context of the following words and vords is left unexplained. This is a single line, so "vullanima oteeeor dim" should also attract some attention.

"Aller" and "her" are also valid German words, as well as "mal" and "lier" (the latter e.g. as word form of "lieren" = "lehren").

Thank you, Anton!
I can say nothing about the Norse. I can only add that, as I wrote in 2014 on the site of Stephen Bax and in 2016 in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., “lucorum” is Latin for “of the groves” or “of the woods” (genitive plural of “lucus”).

• Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (II Century) “lucorum umbra ingentium” (by the shade of its spacious groves).
  
• 1 Kings, 18, Vulgate Bible (IV Century) “prophetasque lucorum quadringentos” (and the prophets of the groves four hundred).
  
• Adam of Breme, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum (XI Century): “prohibetur accessus lucorum et fontium” (the entrance to the sacred groves and springs was inaccessible).
  
• Athanasius Kircher, Latii tum veteris tum novi descriptio (1671) “per varias lucorum vias” (by various wooded paths).
  

Green is “viridis,” there are You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but they don't include “lucus”.
In the context of a painting instruction, I would expect the ablative “viridi”, like in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: “viridi in parte inferiori picto” (painted green in the lower part).
“picto” aside, there are innumerable examples of the use of “viridis”.

E.g. Pliny (Historiae) describes a variety of figs as “sine lacte, cortice viridi” ([it] is entirely destitute of all milky juice, and has a green bark)

More examples in classical and medieval Latin at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..