sentences:  Much of the early Welsh poetry and literature was written in the Old North by northern "Cymry".All of the northern kingdoms and people were eventually absorbed into the kingdoms of England and Scotland, and their histories are now mostly a footnote in the histories of those later kingdoms, though vestiges of the "Cymry" past are occasionally visible.In Scotland the fragmentary remains of the "Laws of the Bretts and Scotts" show Brythonic influence, and some of these were copied into the "Regiam Majestatem", the oldest surviving written digest of Scots law, where can be found the 'galnes' ("galanas") that is familiar to Welsh law.