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Her significance as a storyteller was that she was a traditional storyteller from the
Traveller community rather than a member of the revival movement. She was also largely an oral storyteller, able to retain and construct the story in her head before writing it down. She was the only recorded source
80:. She and other traditional storytellers frequently visited the School of Scottish Studies. The School holds 331 separate recordings of Betsy Whyte performing songs, traditional tales, stories of the supernatural, and riddles, and recounting customs and beliefs, traveller cant, and biography.
30:. She was an accomplished singer and a noted virtuoso of traditional Scottish storytelling. Recordings of her performances are held in the permanent collection of the School of Scottish Studies, part of the University of Edinburgh. She wrote her autobiography in two parts:
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during the war, but he was invalided out of the army in 1943. The couple moved to the fishing village of Usan, near
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She married Bryce Whyte, another traveller, in 1939. Bryce served with the
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69:. They later moved to Ferryden, and then into central Montrose.
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204:(1983), is based on the book. The song was also performed by
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Whyte was recorded by several different folklorists from the
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The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a
Traveller Woman
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LP (1975) included two of her performances of ballads,
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46:Whyte was born in 1919 in Old Rattray, a suburb of
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526:"Map of Stories: Betsy Whyte"
183:331 recordings of Betsy Whyte
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119:The Vision of Mac Con Glinne,
26:(1919-1988), was a Scottish
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256:. It is based on her book,
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289:"Tobar an Dualchais"
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