The delivery technique Marcus is using while delivering a speech verbatim from a teleprompter is manuscript delivery. So the text he is reading is called a manuscript, and he is delivering it in front of cameras or people. Verbatim means word for word - so he is reading everything that is written in the text. This is a common method of reading text during news on TV, for example.
Answer: Because when Sir Gawain cut off the nights head, the head and reminded him the pact that Gawain had to seek him in a year and a day at the Green Chapel.