The Mongol conquest of the Armenia and the Middle East in the late 13th century was marked by large-scale sociopolitical upheaval and the union of formerly petty principalities into a single political entity. Diversity in primary source documents is a potentially invaluable tool for a historical inquiry of this period because of its ability to enhance our understanding of the different methods of knowledge production and dissemination. In light of this potentiality, the poetry of the author known as “Frik” has emerged as a particularly enlightening source because of its stylistically detailed discussions of intrigues in the Ilkhanid court, and Frik’s own tragic experiences at the hands of the Mongols. In spite of the wealth of information that this source offers, it is only in recent years that Frik has undergone a critical review in Anglophone scholarship. Although Frik’s poetry discusses the events immediately following the Mongol conquests of the 13th century in the first person, the oldest extant book with his poetry is a printed book of miscellaneous Armenian verse from the early 16th century. In light of this, definitively placing the author as a contemporary of Arghun, and his poetry as an eyewitness account, seems to be a dubious prospect at best. Instead, this paper will conduct a close reading of one of Frik’s poems and argue for its utility in the creation of a new, hybridized form of legitimacy for the Mongol rule in Armenia.