Hostages

Carthage also had to pay a war indemnity of 10,000 talents over 50 years, in equal annual instalments. This created a prolonged financial obligation to Rome. It had to hand over 100 hostages, selected by Scipio and aged between fourteen and thirty, and return prisoners of war, deserters and runaway slaves.

Ceolwulf gave oaths and hostages promising cooperation. This shows another way the Vikings could exercise control: through a ruler bound to serve their interests, rather than by immediately governing every district themselves.