Robert Frost

New England is our association with the name of Frost, and we are no doubt surprised when told that it is a Scandinavian name. Yet there are today many persons in Denmark who hearing this sound uttered behind their backs would turn with that sudden interest aroused by the unexpected pronouncing of one’s name. Certain of the remote ancestors of these Danish Frosts may have roved into England in the ninth century A. D. , or it may have been Saxons bearing the name of Forst, which is the Saxon form of Frost, who invaded England in the fifth century A. D. and founded the line of English Frosts.