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 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. Nobody has studied its reception, so how popular it is can only be observed.
Common misconceptions
Claims about this symbol that circulate widely and do not hold up.
The Web of Wyrd is often presented as an ancient Norse symbol, and it is not one. It is the clearest case in this section of a modern design circulating as a historical one.
Sources
Full references on the sources page.