Complex sentence: The story opens with a prophetic dream of two eagles who fight over a swan before killing each other, a hawk then arrives to comfort the swan, foreshadowing the rest of the saga and prefiguring the love triangle element of the story.
Split into simpler sentences: The story opens with a prophetic dream of two eagles who fight over a swan before killing each other. A hawk then arrives to comfort the swan, foreshadowing the rest of the saga and the love triangle element of the story.