Einarr Gilsson was an Icelandic poet and official.
He is mentioned already in letters dating from 1339 and 1340 but his years of birth and death are unknown.
[2] Einarr's other preserved works are poems on Bishop Guðmundr Arason which have come down to us in Guðmundar saga biskups by Arngrímr Brandsson.
These consist of a biographical dróttkvætt poem on the bishop focusing on his wonder-working, a shorter hrynhent poem on Guðmundr's conversations with archbishop Þórir of Niðarós and a flokkr on Guðmundr's struggle with the supernatural being Selkolla.
[3] Finnur Jónsson characterized Einarr's poetry as "dry narratives without any poetic flight"[4] and that as a poet Einarr is to be rated "on the whole, not highly".