Piece of Literature to Original Language

Guess the first language used to write each of these novels, poems and other works.

Only including the main language used (since one of these contains small parts written in other languages).

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Written Work	Original Language
The Iliad	Homeric Greek
Don Quixote	Early Modern Spanish
Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard __________ version)	Akkadian
War and Peace	Russian
The Tale of Genji	Early Middle Japanese
Heimskringla	Old Norse
Ulysses	English
The Canon of Medicine	Arabic
Popol Vuh	Kʼicheʼ
Book of Coming Forth by Day (Book of the Dead)	Egyptian
The Little Mermaid	Danish
The Shahnameh	Classical Persian
Blood of Elves (the Witcher Saga)	Polish
The Art of War	Classical Chinese
Aeneid	Classical Latin