I don't have a reliable source for Norway, I am afraid, but in Swedish lutheran churches, the order was generally that the pews were organised in two rows - one to the left and one to the right of the aisle. Women sat on the right and men on the left - note that this is from the priest's perspective from the pulpet. If the gate to the church is located in the other end (which it often were, especially in more recent church constructions in the early 17th century) it would be the opposite if you entered the church - men on the right, women on the left.

Women were required to cover their hair and their bodies, and often wore a shawl or kerchief over their heads.

In general, since social and physical mobility was low, people had their usual seats, with higher status individuals seated further to the front and lower status individuals further to the back. People might be shuffled around if a high-ranking official was visiting temporarily and attended the service, but in general, everyone had their well-known seat.

Families that lived together shared their social status, so sons sat with their father based on his social status and daughters with their mother, also based on the status of the father of the family. Sources on later centuries (18th) indicates that seating was inherited and that people who dropped in status due to being the third son and not inheriting still sat with his father's social peers and that some high-ranking men paid the church to reserve rows in order for their servants and staff to sit together with them, or at least where they would sit would they attend.

By the church law of 1571 (a print from 1621 can be read here), the Swedes were required to be lutheran and attend church services every Sunday, although local exceptions were made for those that had a long way to go to church - once every four weeks, or sending just one of the household, or other solutions. In some towns in northern Sweden, where the parish could be very large "church towns" of a multitude of small cabins would arise, as families constructed something to spend the night in, as they would take most of Saturday to get to the church, spend the night, visit the service on Sunday morning and then spend most of Sunday getting back home.

Onme of the most extensive still existing such church towns is Bonnstaden in Skellefteå. Perhaps a bit ironically, these places were often known to be the site of sinful drinking and behaviour during the Saturday evening, and at least dring the late 19th century in Skellefteå, the site of a bordello.

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