Kai
King Arthurs seneschal, known of in the French romances
as Messire Queux, or Maitre Queux or Kuex. He is prominent
in Malorys Le Morte d Arthur. In the tale of Kilhwch and Olwen
in the Mabinogion, he is identified as a person whose breath
lasted nine nights and days under water and who could exist
nine nights and nine days without sleep. A wound from his
sword could not be cured; he could make himself as tall as the
highest tree; and so great was his body temperature that during
rain whatever he carried remained dry. Originally a rain and
thunder god, he apparently degenerated through a series of
mythological processes into a mere folk hero.
