The Corconti or Korkontoi were a tribe of Greater Germany in the Geography of Ptolemy (2.10). They were in the vicinity of Asciburgius Mountain somewhere near the sources of the Vistula. Asciburgius gives away their location, as it is on the edge of the Krkonose range in Czech, the Karkonosze in Polish. Claudius Ptolemaeus, given contemporary German styling, in a 16th century engraved book frontispiece. ... The Asciburgius mons or Askibourgion oros is a mountain of greater Germany mentioned by the ancient geographer, Ptolemy, of unknown location today. ... The Vistula (Polish: WisÅ‚a) is the longest river in Poland. ... Aerial view over Karkonosze Karkonosze (Polish name, pronounced kár-ko-no-she; Krkonoše in Czech; Riesengebirge in German) or Giant Mountains are part of the Sudetes Mountains in central Europe. ...

It is clear that the people were named after the terrain, but the identity of those people is not entirely clear. Ptolemy considered them Germanic. Some have hypothesized that they were Marcomanni, as those people were in the region. So also were the Quadi; moreover, Ptolemy also lists the Quadi and Marcomanni. We know the latter were newcomers in the first century AD, but the residents of mountains are usually hold-outs from an earlier culture. Mountains are easier to defend and the people living in them are more isolated. The Marcomanni were a Germanic tribe, probably related to the Suebi or Suevi. ... The Quadi were a smaller Germanic tribe, about which little definitive information is known. ...

And finally, the Germanics did not adopt the name of Krkonose. They chose instead Sudeten, or Riesengebirge, "Giant Mountains", because that is what Krkonose means. The name is not Germanic, but neither is it Slavic or Celtic; or at least, no strong derivations in those languages have been found. Very likely, it is not Indo-European at all, but is Pre-Indo-European. One might connect it to the hypothetical Urbian root, *K-K-, "to swell, inflate; big, huge", from which Sorin Paliga derives German Gigantes. Possibly Sumerian kur-kur, "mountains", is related. Such derivations at this point are weak and speculative. Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies Indo-European is originally a linguistic term, referring to the Indo-European language family. ... The Pre-Indo-European population of Europe included an unknown number of ethnic groups that dwelt on the continent before the coming of the speakers of Indo-European languages (though some scholars dispute the Indo-European invasion theory: see Paleolithic Continuity Theory). ... Urbian or Urian is a possible Old European or Pre-Indo-European (Pre-IE) language defined by Sorin Paliga. ...

One does want to ask, who were the ancestors of the Corconti? Were they included in Greater Germany because the Germanics held it or because they spoke Germanic? If they did speak Germanic, how long had they spoken it? Questions such as these may someday have an answer. Meanwhile, there is something of a rivalry between the Slavs and the Germans about who occupied the mountains in antiquity. In the absence of solid evidence, the contention is likely to continue. The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ...

In addition to the above article there are people living around the world today with the family name Krkononška. These people are descended from Northern Bohemia. Their genetic code holds the key!