According to the medieval Gutasaga, Olof Haraldsson, later venerated as Saint Olof, came ashore at this spot in 1029 during a voyage to Russia, and his visit is remembered as marking the Christianisation of Gotland. To commemorate the event, Gotland's first church is said to have been built here, initially a small chapel, probably of timber. This claim rests on saga tradition rather than firm documentary proof, and should be read as legend rather than established fact.
In the early 13th century the timber structure was replaced by a stone church, traces of which can still be found in the ground. Through the Middle Ages the site became a place of pilgrimage for Gotlanders, particularly around 29 July, the feast of Saint Olof, who was regarded as the island's special patron saint.
The stone church did not survive as a complete building. Remnants of it are said to be incorporated into a later structure on the site, a storehouse built in 1835, which today serves as a chapel. From the early 17th century, the area also became important for the extraction of limestone and lime; a lime kiln was established here by a Danish-owned trading company, and quarrying activity, including the shipment of blocks of stone via a small harbour, continued intermittently into the 1950s.
Today the peninsula forms part of a small nature reserve, known for its distinctive limestone rock formations (raukar) rising near the old harbour, alongside the historic and legendary associations of the site.