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From these words, Svana blushed, and her face lit up with a charming smile.

– Well, you are a burning brown-haired man. I immediately noticed this when I saw it in the "Fox hole".

I took her small palms with lovely purple marigolds and began to gently warm in mine.

– What are we going to drink?

– Armenian brandy, of course, if of course they have it?

Svana asked the waiter about this and he nodded in the affirmative.

– I never drank your brandy.

– Today you will try.

Svana twirled the glass she had brought and inhaled the aroma of the drink.

– Is this the Armenian brandy? It has a heady scent.

– This is a piece of the Armenian sun.

– Which shines 333 days a year?

– Quite right.

Svana slowly, savoring every sip, emptied her glass. A pleasant burning liquid poured inside, warming our hearts and souls.

– How lovely. I wouldn't mind repeating it.

The waiter brought us two more glasses, and then another.

– So you are half Norwegian.

– Yes, and my mother gave me the name. The ancestors of modern Norwegians believed that if you give a child a nickname in honor of an animal and worship him, then it will serve as a talisman for life: a mystical connection will arise between the animal and the bearer of the name. Some of the most common female variants of such totem names were: Hrevna – "crow", Svana – "swan". So it turns out that you hit the very spot when you said about Grieg's melody and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.