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Understand a result of FullSimplify

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FullSimplify[((Sqrt[5] - 1)/(2*2^(1/4)))*Sqrt[Sqrt[2]*5^(1/4) - Sqrt[Sqrt[5] - 1]]]

returns

(-13 + 6*Sqrt[5] - 2*Sqrt[85 - 38*Sqrt[5]])^(1/4)

What are the steps to show this identity?

Edit: The work of FullSimplify here is just collecting all factors under the square root and multiplying out. But the difficult way is backwards: How to see that the result can be written as a product with a factor

(Sqrt[5] - 1)^2

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