Schleswig-Holstein Question
However, Grimm's mythological methods have also been criticised extensively. Unlike his linguistic methods for reconstructing past languages, they were unable to produce scientifically falsifiable results. His findings have been shown to have been shaped by his own political leanings: some of his claims in the "Deutsche Mythologie" related to his views on the proper borders of a Unified Germany and particularly the Schleswig-Holstein Question; others were shaped by his sometimes strident, anti-Catholic Protestant sentiments. The "Deutsche Mythologie" in fact implies a range of views on social questions: