Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Danewort

Danewort , noun

[Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]

(Botany) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]