I know that the bug has been report like when playing the quest "Come back Bella" with the Scandinavians, the scouts do not have their stuff. But i think that is because this civilisation have 2 scouts, but in the quest we have the same scout. Maybe that create a conflict.
This is not a bug - The Norse civilization's scouts have 8 speed by default, which is slower than Bella's speed of 10. We needed to give the Norse a specific set of scouts so that they don't get chased down and killed by her!