Web of Wyrd
A nine-line grid said to contain every rune shape. It is a modern design with no historical attestation whatsoever.
The drawing above shows one form of the symbol. Historical examples vary (sometimes considerably), and no single version should be treated as canonical.
Earliest attestation: Later 20th century
The oldest surviving appearance we can actually point to.
There is no pre-modern attestation of this symbol. It does not appear in any inscription, manuscript, grimoire or archaeological find, and it is absent from the standard handbooks of the runic corpus. It appears to have been devised within modern heathen and neopagan practice in the later 20th century.
Historical use
Modern use
Popular in contemporary heathen practice and in tattoo work, usually explained as a matrix containing every rune shape and representing the interconnection of past, present and future. That explanation is modern throughout: no source of any period connects a grid of this kind to the runes or to the Norns. How popular it now is, we can only observe; nobody has studied its reception.
Common misconceptions
Claims about this symbol that circulate widely and do not hold up.
Presenting the Web of Wyrd as an ancient Norse symbol is simply incorrect. This is the clearest case in this section of a modern design circulating as a historical one.
Sources
Full references on the sources page.