"Scandiknavery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1966, A Wake Newslitter, volume 3, page 114",
          "text": "Mrs. Christiani twice […] guesses that Kierkegaard may be behind this bit of Scandiknavery.",
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          "ref": "1990, Neil Rolde, Maine: A Narrative History, page 6",
          "text": "In other words, had the [Viking] site in Maine been “salted?” Was this simply a new and audacious case of “Scandiknavery?”",
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          "ref": "2000, Orm Øverland, Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870–1930, page 166",
          "text": "However, some myth elements that a few other Norwegian-American promoters tried to make part of the Norwegian-American homemaking argument may more readily be dismissed as what Michael Musmanno in an angry moment has called “Scandiknavery.” One such myth was […] that George Washington was of Norwegian descent.",
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