Also on this date, the Nybø and Nygjerdet farms were transferred from Vik to Høyanger Municipality.

The official blazon is "Vert, three leaf-knives Or bendwise in pale" (Norwegian: På grøn grunn tre skråstilte gull lauvknivar).

This means the arms have a green field (background) and the charge is a set of three knives for the cutting of leaves that are laying diagonally in a vertical column.

The charge has a tincture of Or which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used.

These types of blunt point knives were commonly used in the area to cut fodder for animals.

The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Vik is made up of 17 representatives that are elected to four year terms.

The mayors (Nynorsk: ordførar) of Vik:[33] The wide and fertile village of Vikøyri was established in ancient times.

Vik was a center in Sogn through a great deal of the Bronze and Iron Ages (1800 BC-1050 AD).

Several of the mounds carried rich finds that show how the people of Vik traded and travelled both domestically and abroad.

Per Ivarson Undi with his wife and children became the first emigrants from Sogn og Fjordane county.

Tens of thousands of Americans can trace their roots to Vik municipality.

When the plant was opened it was immoderately labeled "the greatest happening in the development of Vik".

The Vik people looked optimistically upon the future of industry and economic growth.

In 1957, the Norwegian National Road 13 between the municipalities of Vik and Voss (across the Vikjafjellet mountain) was officially opened.

When the last power project was finished, a great effort was made to establish new employment in Vik.

The company produced crash barriers, signposts, snow shields, and other aluminium products.

The "West Norwegian Fjords of Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord" were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2005.

The World Heritage Site possesses a unique combination of glacial landforms at the same time as each area is characterised by its own outstanding beauty.

The Nærøyfjord areas in this site stretch through the municipalities of Aurland, Lærdal, Vik, and Voss.

The last syllable of the name is the Norwegian word describing the flat area of land at the mouth of a river.

It is a triple-nave stave church and has a Gothic altar-baldaquin with sculptured heads, as well as decorations and paintings in the ceiling depicting the childhood of Christ.

This stave church was saved from demolition on the initiative of the architect Peter Andreas Blix.

This tradition of rich ornamentation appears to go back to the animal carvings of the Viking Age.

The dragons are lovingly executed and transformed into long-limbed creatures of fantasy, here and there entwined with tendrils of vine, with winding stems and serrated leaves.

The Statue of Fridtjof from Frithjof's Saga is a landmark which towers 22.5 metres (74 ft) over the hilltop.

The statue was a gift from Kaiser Wilhelm II, to the Norwegian people and was erected in July 1913.

Situated on the Sognfjord the municipality of Vik is known for its mild climate and great scenery.

Take a hike on Vikafjellet and you could see such species as Eurasian golden plover or in good rodent years, maybe a rough-legged buzzard.