Scandiknavery

English Etymology en Scandinavian knavery. en Q6882 in his 1939 novel Finnegans Wake (see quotation below). Noun - en nonce word Duplicity by or involving Scandinavians. Book 1, episode 2 For to sod the brave son of Scandiknavery. en 1966 A Wake Newslitter https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ip4sAQAAIAAJ 3 114 Mrs. Christiani twice guesses that Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard may be behind this bit of Scandiknavery. en 1990 w:Neil Rolde Maine: A Narrative History 9780884480693 6 In other words, had the [Viking] site in Maine been “salted?” Was this simply a new and audacious case of “Scandiknavery?” en 2000 w:Orm Øverland Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870–1930 0252025628 166 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jXGuJkA-RkYC&pg=PA166 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. References n